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Word: bruce (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ragtime Band, Tyrone Power has not had time to make major changes in his technique. Otherwise, his performance is well up to the standard of similar roles in Lloyd's of London and Marie Antoinette. In a supporting cast which includes Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce and Director Miles Mander, drafted for the role of Disraeli, the ablest member is Producer Zanuck's latest Continental star. Less mannered than unfortunate little Simone Simon, Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) chatters intelligibly, looks pretty in gamine or Empire costume and chokes to death affectingly during the zobah-hah. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Wally's doughboys, like British Bruce Bairnsfather's Tommies, were pathetic but unfrightened little runts wallowing in mud, beset by cooties and all the creature discomforts of trench warfare. Most endearing to his readers and most distressing to some General Staff "brass hats' was Wally's wholehearted disrespect for M.P.'s, top sargints, second looies and all forms of military discipline. Toward the more sanguinary aspects of the War, Wally maintained an attitude of good-humored fatalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wally Returns | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Duncan Longcope '41, and Tom Lacey '41 are slated to fight for the 175-lb. berth. Prospect for the 155-lb. post is another Sophomore, Bunny Barnes, while Bruce Richardson '41 and Art Page '40 will contend for the 145-lb. position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTEEN TURN OUT FOR WRESTLING PRACTICE | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

Representative Bruce Barton, famed adman-into-politician who conceives that at present his most useful function is as articulator of his party's ideas, hung a national backdrop for Nominee Dewey with a speech about the New Deal's shortcomings and how Republicans would mend them. "The next national campaign," he key noted, "will not be fought between a liberal party and a reactionary party. There is no place in America for a reactionary party. The next national campaign will be between a Republican liberal party and a Democratic radical party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Major Test | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...figures in the negotiations were believed to have been William Bunyon, president, and Wellington A. Bruce, secretary for the "inside union" and John W. Lowes '19, Financial Vice-President and Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager for the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Pay 'Adjustment' Arranged With Janitors Leaves University Satisfied | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

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