Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contented Australian Nationalists took the opposite view and praised their smart Prime Minister, sleek Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who is so modern that he has a private airplane garage in his basement and frequently flies forth...
...which alert Prime Minister Bruce received blame & praise, last week, was to sell for a total of ?1,900,000 seven great ships which cost some ?7,500,000 when they were bought some five years ago by the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister's defense was that the ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott...
...make some money, to get practice, to have fun, is the avowed purpose of Junior Englewood (New Jersey weekly), edited by Bruce C. Forbes, 12-year-old son of Bertie Charles...
...race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest and was now sitting with Queen Thuraya in the Earl of Derby's box. It was a big week for him and he didn't want to miss anything. Howard Bruce of Maryland, owner of Billy Barton, sat in Sir Thomas Royden's box. All stood with their coat collars turned up, staring into the mist in which could be heard the sound of hoofs...
...Marston has indeed been sorely tried this winter. In Behold, the Bridegroom, one taste of his fatal fascination had the effect of arsenic upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon to act the part of Bruce King, just one of those men whom women cannot forget. The women, to be sure, are only two; Mrs. Crane and the temptress who has stolen her husband. Since wily Mrs. Crane has promised to give Mr. Crane his freedom in case he can find her a fitting successor...