Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven mad days before, Chicagoans saw mud slung in steam-shovel fashion, the so-called "better element" cheered 10,000 women marching for "Dever and decency." "Big Bill" Thompson, idol of half Chicago, its mayor from 1915-23, made his chief issue the King of England, swung his huge hams of fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers...
This so great excitement in high places over a few trivial words mounted, last week, because the Government is reported on the verge of introducing a bill to extend the franchise to women below the present minimum voting age of 30 - perhaps even down to "flappers...
...brother, the Marquess of Salisbury, sits in the Baldwin Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Another brother is Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, onetime Lord Robert Cecil, famed peace-man. Hence, if the opinion of these potent Cecils upon the woman's suffrage bill is truly mirrored by the words of Lord Hugh Cecil last week, a definite faction in the Cabinet is disclosed militating against the known liberal attitude of Premier Baldwin toward the bill...
Reputedly the cabinet approved in camera last week for early submission to Parliament, a bill providing that in a three-cornered contest for a parliamentary seat wherein no candidate has an absolute majority the re-vote shall be only on the two leaders in the original polling...
Economics and two of the arts, music and painting, compose the bulk of today's intellectual bill-of-fare for the individual possessed of much leisure and many interests who hies himself from hall to hall under the name of the Student Vagabond...