Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...
Farm Relief. The President will not compromise with liberal Congressmen on anything like the equalization feature of the McNary-Haugen Bill. But he will support a large appropriation for extension of the present co-operative marketing system...
Like most children of the professional play world, to whom five minutes' cordial applause somehow connotes complete triumph over Fortune, and a crisp five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by people who for two years have eluded the rent collector. She is in this country in an effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes...
...alacrity, they have apparently preserved her against the dismal disillusionment of old age. It is five weeks now since her foster son received a telegram notifying him that she had come to the U. S. to undergo operations that may save her sight. . . . Meanwhile the Manhattan hotel has a bill of $500 hanging over her head. The cafeteria refuses further credit. It is only too evident that the world knows her no longer as Dear Little Buttercup but sees in her broken body only the dust of a withered flower that has been inconveniently blown into its midst...
...gale sweeping in from the Irish Sea. The luncheon tent was blown away in large ribbons. Ernest Whitcombe, one of the best, took five shots to reach one green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke 80 on the final round. George Duncan, hoping to keep dry, stuffed his plus fours with brown paper, came to the first...