Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roused from this torpor when Lady Nancy Astor, famed "First Woman M. P.", defended vigorously a bill designed to prevent the Government from discharging women civil employes as soon as they marry. Said Lady Astor...
Eventually the bill was voted down...
That students in the University are henceforth prohibited from parking motor vehicles on University property during certain hours of the day, and that failure to comply with certain parking rules will cost the offender a fine of $10 or more, chargable on term bill, was announced yesterday by University officials. In the last meeting of the Corporation it was voted that the Comptroller of the University should draw up a set of parking rules relating to undergraduate owned motor vehicles. Circulars explaining these rules will be distributed in several days...
...dark, moonless midnight, ten midWest yokels armed with sticks surrounded a sidetracked private car. "Wake up, Hen! Wake up, Hen!" they shouted, then thwacked the car mightfully for half an hour. "Hey! Wake up, Hen! How's your brother Bill...
...Prussia must have awakened, but he kept himself and his opinion of U. S. yokels concealed until his car was coupled to a through express. His mission (it was in 1902) was to foment good will; and perhaps, when he returned to Germany, he confided only to his "brother Bill" the tale of "Wake up, Hen!" But last week, at Kiel, Prince Henry recalled the story as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entrance into the Imperial Navy...