Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard that the House Agriculture Committee had approved, 13 to 8, of immediate action on the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, had laid aside the Curtis-Crisp compromise bill...
...good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation of $2,167,187); it provided for an enlisted strength of 118,750 instead of the 115,000 proposed in the budget; it made no allowances for the building of new barracks. With such additions...
William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down...
...dissenting opinion, Justice McKinney held with the Scopes defense and with Henry E. Colton of the Tennessee Academy of Science (which pressed the appeal) that the language employed by Farmer J. W. Butler, the bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application"; that therefore the bill "violates the first essential of due process of law." There are eight Biblical versions of "the story of the Divine Creation," some of them quite contradictory...
...eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics...