Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the attack on this Spanish town was not followed by further hostilities, it is hard to call the bombardment by an pleasanter name than an act of war. If it was this, President Roosevelt was bound to apply the Neutrality Act against the attacking power. Such action on his part would have dealt a heavy blow at German transatlantic shipping, and Mr. Hull evidently feared to go this far. He preferred to regard it as an international "spanking" similar to a naval attack on Venezuela by Britain, Germany, and Italy...
According to Valencia: as the Palma-bound air-raiders passed overhead, the Deutschland suddenly opened fire with its 14 anti-aircraft guns. The Leftist planes circled, dove, dropped twelve bombs. Four scored direct hits...
...column after column without end. Pictures, too. "The Duke and his finance strolling in the chateau garden. Mrs. Warfield's dark Buick riding through the countryside." To Hell with it all. Let's have a book, something good, something old. Out of the bookcase the thick, leather-bound Shakespeare. Flipping the pages, one by one, dozen by dozen. Macbeth, no, gloomy. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Who ever heard of them? Richard II, ah, good enough...
...Fletcher, stuck out his paw. Grinning, the railway counsel unbent and shook the paw. Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month-old dog rolled over on his back, waved his paws, swished his tail. Dr. Claus stopped talking, unleashed the dog. With a bound Rex leaped to Chairman Bulwinkle, licked his hand, his chin. Then the big pup made a circuit of the room, pawing Congressional knees, shaking Congressional hands. After a final shake with Chairman Bulwinkle's daughter, called in from the next office, Rex returned to his master, nuzzled his knee. "The subcommittee," twinkled Congressman...
Since it was the first novelty in the Metropolitan spring season, The Man Without a Country was bound to be well attended. Interest was doubled by the fact that it was the collaboration of two famed and well-loved U. S. oldsters, one 75, the other 65. Walter Damrosch wrote the music, Arthur Guiterman the libretto...