Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harrowing time for the Nominee because the committee was debating, and soon would vote, whether or not he was to continue as a Nominee for the Presidency, whether or not he was to be withdrawn and returned to private life as just plain William F. ("Bill") Varney of Rockville Centre, Long Island...
...Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago is a supreme example of the importance of not being earnest, of "giving a good show." (In this connection, Mr. Kent makes the astonishing statement that President Coolidge has "a profound distaste" for fishing...
...just off its coast at Long Beach, the Johanna Smith, onetime lumber ship, dropped anchor a month ago. Last week the United Press discovered it. Aboard were 13 gaming tables, 38 slot machines and a cash girl trained to give 18 quarter-dollars in exchange for a $5 bill. "Guests" were being taken aboard from the shore in speedboats, 40 at a load, 25? for the ride. The exposure published by the United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons, had profited...
...month, some say for three months, he had been at work on it. Two weeks before delivery he sent it to a printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
...BILL OF FARE Freedom of Choice MEATS For the Meat Eater FRUITS CEREALS FRESH VEGETABLES DAIRY PRODUCTS For Health and Economy...