Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever-generous Mrs. Roosevelt insisted that her friend stay on under her great roof, sleeping in the Rose Room, taking her meals with the family, traveling out Connecticut Ave. every evening in a White House limousine to do her 15-minute turn at the Shoreham. Last week Roberta Jonay, bound for Broadway, was as morally certain of landing a good job as a lucky young girl...
...union hopes. Strike Leader Bittner let it be known that $1,300,000 had already been spent on the steel drive. The union had won a point when Mayor Burton of Cleveland revoked Republic's permit for use of the airport from which planes had provisioned its strike-bound plants in Ohio. It hoped to have non-strikers ousted from those plants by appeals for enforcement of sanitary regulations forbidding the use of mills as living quarters. In Chicago, however, Republic got around a similar maneuver, after bringing Pullman cars into its yards for temporary housing, by securing...
...Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington, had a son who had graduated from Annapolis. Once an architect, at 63 he was a not too prosperous real estate broker, bound for Norfolk cheaply by boat presumably to complete an inconsequential real-estate deal...
Oslo Group. Because the Scandinavian nations speak nearly the same language, share the same royal family and were most ardently bound to neutrality during the War, they formed instinctively a tight little group that talked and voted alike during the early years of the League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual...
...thought it a terrible thing, that the Duke should be denied what was open to any other Englishman-a religious ceremony at his wedding. . . . We dared not tell a soul except a church warden who was bound to secrecy. I believe my husband would not mind if he were forced to leave the church. We sent the servants away, closed the house and came to London...