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Word: bruces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, Betsey Barton was having the kind of good time only American girls of her background can have. She was 16, pretty, athletic, and the daughter of a rich father, famed Advertising Man Bruce Barton. She rode horseback, danced, played tennis, toured the world. Then she broke her back in an automobile accident. In spite of all that surgery could do, her legs remained paralyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For the Disabled | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Bruce Cabot, squarejawed, Hollywood heman, asked permission of the Los Angeles Superior Court to legalize his cine-moniker, dropping his real name: Etiénne Jacques Pellissier de Bujac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Showfolk | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...Lord Bruce Carlton ("his body was magnificent") found 16-year-old Amber in a country, village, whisked her off to London as his mistress. "Under his stroking fingers . . . she purred like a kitten." But Bruce soon had enough, and went dashing off to the West Indies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ods-Fish, Madame! | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Then one fine day Lord Bruce Carlton came back and killed the Captain. Amber suggested marriage to his Lordship, whose reply was to rush off to Virginia, leaving Amber with nothing but "two or three soiled shirts which carried [his] strong male smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ods-Fish, Madame! | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Married. Navy Air Forces Lieut. Jay Gould III, 24, great-grandson of the late great manipulator Jay Gould; and Jennifer Beryl Bruce, 19, daughter of veteran British character actor Nigel Bruce; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1944 | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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