Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said onetime (1910-13) Senator Leroy Percy of Mississippi: "Big Bill Thompson . . . has made some enemies, but he'll never make an enemy in the Mississippi Valley...
...Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...
Ohio. The big issue was a referendum on a bill which would have reestablished "kangaroo courts" (justices of the peace who share in the fines they impose for liquor law violation).*The Anti-Saloon League pressed the bill as a Wet & Dry issue. The bill was defeated by some 300,000 votes. ... In Cleveland it was voted not to revert to mayoralty form of government, to retain the city manager plan, of which Cleveland is the most populous exponent...
...must know I admired him when I would sing for him 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Ye gods, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' of all songs! Well, of course, I didn't know the words. I asked Bill Tilden to give me the words to the song and he went as far as 'Oh, say, can you see?' Then he 'ta-da-daed' the rest. What a scholar he is! Finally I had to have the words looked up in a library...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...