Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laughed and grew restless while Senator Bruce filibustered and blocked consideration of 92 bills, including a few of his own. Senator Bruce was trying to force action on his favorite bill to settle the more-than-a-century-old French spoliation claims...
...Bruce of Maryland, Episcopalian, could restrain himself no longer: "I shall say very little, because it would be the easiest thing in the world unduly to dignify the distempered words of the Senator from Alabama. . . . The trouble in your State is that you have not enough Catholics. You seem to think of the Catholic as if he were a rawhead and bloodybones, a kind of ogre, some sort of monster swayed by entirely different feelings, sentiments, and impulses from the rest of us. If you had a few more Catholics in your State you would not indulge in such...
...beamed Vice President Dawes, on first meeting Marion Nevada Talley, prima donna. Then, taking a long drag at his pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert...
...Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, on his way home from London, had luncheon at the White House...
...curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...