Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable collection of limited editions designed by Bruce Rogers, Typographical Advisor to the University Press and a noted expert on printing, has been presented to Widener Library by Professor P. J. Sachs '00 in memory of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, the centenary of whose birth is to be celebrated next month...
...Princeton, a race of giants were reported trying for the line. Captain Hannegan of Navy will be out of the first few games, owing to an injury incurred in baseball practice last spring. Bruce Caldwell, star Yale back, reported complete healing of an ankle injury received in last year's game with Georgia, which kept...
...scamp, Alfred Jingle, takes the Pickwickians for £120 as balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...Bruce Armstrong (Richard Arlen) after a fall disentangles himself from his battered machine, forced down behind the enemy lines. He steals an enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized...
Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...