Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year. Then in July, 1926, he fought a menacing undertow for 15 minutes at Ocean City, Md., rescued a drowning woman. Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay them $1,121 for his daughter's trousseau†-a bill which has been due for more than a year. Mrs. Stanfield announced that the account would soon be paid...
...Stanfield, once a millionaire sheep rancher, neglected a bill of a mere thousand dollars? Perhaps one reason is "The Boar's Nest," famed Washington gambling institution closed a year ago, where Mr. Stanfield's poker is said to have cost him some $250,000. In spite of such unfavorable publicity, he leaves Congress with many friends, who admire him as a gentleman of impulses...
During eleven months of the year, God or the devil might be paying the running expenses of the U. S. government as far as most U. S. citizens know or care. But every March, several million taxpayers awake to the fact that it is they who foot the bill, that it is they who pay the salaries of the Army, the Congress and the big Na-vee. Last week, approximately 5,000,000 citizens gingerly unfolded crisp new income tax blanks, racked perplexed brains while they tried to figure how much they owed of the $1,700,000,000 total...
...land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last December...
...tourists the most important provision of the new bill is one that provides for 30-day permits, under which they may buy liquor and consume it in their private domiciles; a domicile may be anything from a hotel-room to a tent. Residents under the new bill may obtain individual permits, may buy any quantity of liquor which the Liquor Control Board allows...