Word: bill
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True it certainly is that many American women seem to have contributed overmuch to the $1,825,000,000 which go to make up the cosmetic bill, but it is as impossible to prove that to them as it is to prove to the Navy Department that $740,000,000 is an inordinate sum to spend on battleships; so perhaps it is advisable not to try to remedy either case. In a large navy we give the women something to powder for, and in the beautiful women the navy something to fight...
Senator Dill, who is the leading proponent in the Senate of a bill to provide for the election of the judiciary by the people, is better known as a leading Progressive...
Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, author of the Federal Radio Commission Bill, will speak in the Harvard Union under the auspices of the Democratic Club today at 4 o'clock. At 3 o'clock the club committee on foreign research, organized to investigate possible issues of foreign policy of the coming Presidential campaign, will meet under the direction of E. D. Dumbauld...
...Only a tramp knows how big your country is," Count Felix von Luckner told a capacity audience at the Harvard Union yesterday afternoon. "I travelled 21,000 miles to find your Buffalo Bill, and when I got to his house I was told he was in Germany with a circus...
Again he stopped talking, this time to tear up two phone books at once for a little afternoon exercise. Asked why he had run away from home, he answered. "I wanted to meet Buffalo Bill. All German boys read about Buffalo Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...