Word: brice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost his job at the advent of the talkies...
Next day nine Marine planes were doing "coiled-spring" loops in single file across the sky. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, loudly audible to the crowd 2,000 ft. below. Two planes, piloted by Lieuts. L. H. ("Sandy") Sanderson and W. O. Brice, had collided. As their planes fell, the crowd heard Lieut. Emile Chourre. standing before a microphone on the field, calmly broadcast the event as if it were part of the entertainment. Said he: "Keep your seats everybody and watch for the boys to come out. Two of them will shortly join the Caterpillar Club. Here they...
...everybody was not yet all right. Sanderson, his shroud line caught in the wrecked plane, dropped 1,000 ft. before he struggled loose. Brice was momentarily stunned, said later he was only dimly aware of flinging himself from his plane and jerking open his parachute. Both landed safely. The planes injured no one: Sanderson's landed in a vacant lot, Brice's on the cornice of a public school building, beyond which several children were playing...
...General Brice P. Disque, in lumber and finance since he resigned from the Army in 1919, was elected executive director of the Anthracite Institute...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...