Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Original Amendments One to Ten, enacted in 1791, constitute the famed U. S. "Bill of Rights...
Late in the '70s, Buffalo Bill...
Officiating Socialist. At the dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood...
...much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches after a drop of three feet, thus affording a measure of amusement before taking. Their constant buyers have always been among the poorer middle classes everywhere, who cringe from a doctor's bill, but can afford lOc for 12 pills, or 25c for 40, or 50c for 90. Still, Sir Joseph, on a visit to the U. S. in 1912, could brag: "My pills are taken by dukes and lords, who conceal the fact from their family doctors. I have positive evidence...
...Migratory Bird Refuge and Marshland bill which will come before Congress in its impending session provides for Federal purchase of sanctuary feeding as well as breeding grounds...