Word: brig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omaha, Neb. Brig.-General LeRoy Eltinge was delirious, refused to take medicine prescribed for him. He cried to the nurse: "Who are you to tell me, the commander of an entire brigade, what to do?" The nurse masked her voice and growled: "I am General Pershing; I command you to take your medicine." Delirious General Eltinge raised his hand in a feeble salute, took the medicine, soon died...
...crackling evening over White Bay, Newfoundland, last week. A lonesome woman, solitary radio operator on Horse Island, took a long bedtime look at a brig-antine's bulk in the broken ice 16 miles off shore. It was the Viking, seal hunting ship from which Varick Frissell* with a troupe of 15 last year took the major part of a talkie, to be named White Thunder. For continuity, he this year wanted shots of seals pupping and the pups learning to swim. He also wanted scenes of sealers dynamiting icebergs out of their ship's path. The Viking...
Mary Hay's father was Brig.-General Frank Merrill Caldwell, U. S. A. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. when she was bom 29 years ago. She was 17, spry and "cute" when she stepped into the chorus of Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little...
After having played golf matches with John Davison Rockefeller for many a year, Brig.-General Adelbert Ames, 95, onetime (1874-76) Governor of Mississippi, announced that his infirmities required him to give up the game. Said he: "Maybe you think it would be great to be 95 years old, but when you get there it looks different. You have outlived all your own generation and you no longer care for candy or the other things that youth loves. It gets to be pretty lonesome. Things have changed. Nobody walks, everybody rides, and they don't stop?they go right...
...introspective, and gains sympathetic agreement when she considers herself an awful fool. You may be annoyed at her careless morality, but the passionate way she went at things will make you admit she had more than her share of courage. The Author. Mary Borden's husband is Brig. General Edward Louis Spears, one-time M. P., with whom she lives in one of London's old houses behind Westminster Abbey. When her husband stands for Parliament, she helps his campaign by many a speech. When he sits there, she goes to her seaside cottage and writes novels...