Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need of the old plantation, mammy, and a ticket to Mobile. American women don't need any sentimentalizing. From the late years of the last century they have had much too much of that. And few of the intelligent ones, the Bypatias of Spoon River and Lynn and Beacon Bill, would care for the sugared accents of the dying bowman. Arthur is passing--the buck...
...competition for the three Harvard members of the combined Yale-Harvard net team which will travel abroad this nummer has narrowed down to four men, two of whom are Freshmen. Captain J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, Captain M. L. Bill '30 of the Freshman net team, and Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30 are the quartet who have survived the elimination trials which have been in progress for the past month...
Right Honorable Labor Members of Parliament lost their heads in a flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate...
...newsgatherers Mr. MacDonald said: "If I am able, I shall go straight from the dock at Southampton to the House of Commons. I shall not even go first to my home. The Trade Unions Bill [see above] must be fought to a finish...
...events proved last week how utterly Republican Germany has laid aside the mentality of Imperial days: 1) The Reichstag voted 323 to 41 to continue for two more years the Protection of the Republic Bill, debarring Wilhelm II from returning to Germany. 2) His Excellency General von Pawels announced that under his direction there have been destroyed the last of the fortifications along the Polish frontier which Germany agreed to scrap in return for concessions from the Allies (TIME...