Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the McNary-Haugen Bill should be promptly enacted...
...prompt caller was Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, co-author of the late McNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to let bygones be bygones, including the famed equalization fee. Not so Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, the other half of the team. He sulked in his tent...
...living room of the Hoover home. Negro butlers, directed by Mrs. Hoover, served lemonade. There were carnations in the vases. Associate Justice Stone, of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Mrs. Stone were there; also the Vernon Kelloggs, George Barr Baker, assistant to the Attorney General, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Mrs. William E. Borah, and the Herbert Clark Hoover Jrs. Herbert Clark Hoover III and Peggy Anne Hoover were put to bed long before anything exciting happened...
Tardiness obliged Midshipman Larry Cardwell to borrow and wear his neighbor's clothes one day in 1926 at the U. S. Naval Academy. He was dismissed. Tardiness by Congress in passing a bill to reinstate Midshipman Cardwell, or tardiness by President Coolidge in signing the bill, would have left Midshipman Cardwell in disgrace. But Congress acted in time and so, last week, with six hours to spare, did President Coolidge. The bill set forth that Midshipman Cardwell, an honest youth, had simply been pressed for time. His good name stands clear...
...Street of Sin. Basher Bill seizes an egg, bashes it against his own forehead, rips off the shell, swallows the nutritious portion whole. He grabs another, and another,-until he has consumed twelve (12) eggs. The eggs are hardboiled; so is Basher Bill as played by Emil ("Slow Motion") Jannings. Paramount's publicity man swears that Mr. Jannings actually ate those twelve eggs. Well, good for him; for there is little else to egg one on in The Street of Sin. Basher Bill lives in the slums of London with a blonde harlot who loves him. His occasional business...