Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their routine dances now and then, one of them actually took a heavy fall, and the song and patter men act somewhat nonplussed at being on the big time: Fannie Brice, America's leading comedienne (don't ask which direction) dashes on for 15 minutes and completes the bill in a manner inconvenient to describe...
...Dear Bill...
Died. Mrs. Julia Cody Goodman, 86, sister of the late famed Col. William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody; in Honolulu, Hawaii...
...would retain Secretaries Mellon (Treasury) Davis (War) and New (Postmaster-General). And nearly everyone thought that the next Attorney-General would not be the incumbent who is Mr. Coolidge's good friend, John Garibaldi Sargent; but would be Mr. Hoover's good friend William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan,* who is now assistant to Mr. Sargent. For Secretary of State, Mr. Hoover would consider, it was believed, the claims and abilities of his chief campaigner, Senator William Edgar Borah; and also, of Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and brightest jewel in the Coolidge foreign policy...
Presiding at a debate was Prof. David Saville Muzzey, author of a U. S. history deemed pro-British and pernicious by "Big Bill" Thompson, and declared by him unfit for Chicago schools. Further his mayoral anglophobia would have been irritated by the fact that three of the debaters were British students...