Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brides put their first biscuits together we sure could build some fine roads." "America's chewing gum bill in the past year amounted to over $9,000,000, exclusive of the cost of gasoline necessary to remove it from trousers." "A Dumb Dora from South Hoboken wants to know if a man who plays the piano by ear is an acrobat."-ED. "No Predicament...
Commerce, submitted to President Coolidge a legislative program in the interest of his businessmen friends. He urged: ratification of the Berenger-Mellon French debt agreement, reduction of corporation income taxes, early enactment of the McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill...
...Clerk Carr rummaged around among the dusty State documents with a wide-eyed, temperamental youth named Francois Jones who had worked in Paris; by night, the two became wrought up over the evil effects of politics on the diplomatic and consular services. Finally in 1895 they drew up a bill for the organization of the foreign services on a merit basis. Politicians laughed heartily, wondered who this young Zealot Carr was. Senators Morgan of Alabama and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts introduced the bill regularly from 1895 to 1905, and saw it tossed aside equally regularly. In 1905 Elihu Root...
...title that the heroine is a practical girl married to a nice but careless ace. The young bridegroom furnishes their apartment with War trophies, one of which explodes at an embarrassing moment while her husband is away, attending to the War. The ruin brings an interior decorator and a Bill, but the latter is not a little boy as the telegram led an eager husband to believe. Parenthood, deferred, synchronizes with more pacific interior decorations. All the explosions are not confined to the screen, for the audience went up in scattering laughs...
...begun to advertise the prospective dinner for 1926, claiming to have "created football history" by what it did in 1925 and naming in the advertisements several of the guests who were present last year, among their such coaches as "Ed" Hall and "Big Bill" Edwards. Now, as chairman of the rules committee, Mr. Hall spoke at the dinner, and he began his remarks by saying that while he did not wish to seem ungracious, he ventured, nevertheless, to express the hope that no newspaper ever again would undertake such a project in connection with American intercollegiate athletics...