Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilized countries of the world, always with a vague air of being decidedly astonished at this romantic turn of events. Delicious is a fair example of their work. As soon as Miss Gaynor is seen, as a Scottish immigrant girl named Heather flitting about the steerage of a liner bound for the U. S., you know that Farrell, a polo-player returning to Long Island, will presently make his appearance from the first-class decks. You surmise that minor difficulties?an immigration official who wants to keep Miss Gaynor outside the U. S., and a blonde who wants to keep...
Immediately the kidnappers, who had their victims bound and blindfolded in a dirty farmhouse, while they fiddled with a radio, learned that they had to reckon with Missouri's mightiest, most belligerent, most implacable man. Without further attempt to collect ransom they hastily bundled Mrs. Donnelly and the chauffeur into an automobile, turned them loose on a suburban road where police found them...
...when a divorce is not a divorce, when parents are deprived of the custody of the children-these and many another nice question are answered in Getting a Divorce. In South Carolina, though you can get an annulment or a separation, you cannot be divorced. In Maine "spouses are bound indissolubly together in the bonds of mutual infidelity." According to an Iowa decision, "profanity bears much more proximately on the impairment of a woman's health than upon that of a man." In Tennessee "mere acerbity of temper, occasional reproaches, or rude language on the part of the husband...
...Passing Present. If it does nothing else, this play demonstrates that Hope Williams can get along in slow or fast theatrical company. She will probably never be seen to better advantage than she was in Holiday and Paris Bound, those stoically wisecracking comedies which Philip Barry wrote before he turned serious. She has held her own in a review, The New Yorkers, without singing a bar. In The Passing Present, Actress Williams is called upon to portray the kindly, knowing sister in a quietly dissolving first family of Manhattan...
...railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side by side...