Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Rome, Madrid and other capitals, other U. S. diplomats prepared similar explanations for irate Red Callers. Everywhere police protection was strengthened about U. S. envoys. With only a bill of exceptions and the Massachusetts Supreme Court, or the Governor's pardon, between them and death, Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti were more than ever the potential fuses for bombs* under the chairs of unwary U.S. dignitaries, whose safety was not increased by comment such as the opening editorial sentence of last week's Nation: "Judge Webster Thayer is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Early Friday afternoon the little Pralebeys begin to drift into town, and Bill Altenre whose you used to know at St. Sergius, brings one of his club mates in for the week-end. They are happy all over the place, and the fur coat which they leave by accident hardly suffices to pay for the damage they did to your liquor and your room...
Said Premier Lykke, last week: "The Government will at once introduce a bill abolishing prohibition. We take it for granted that the Storting (Parliament) will adopt the measure. Enforcement of prohibition law has proved impossible and has led to contempt for and disregard of all laws as well as to extensive smuggling and incitement to drink...
Most Mexicans decided last week that they know who will be their president in 1928. They decided when the Mexican Chamber passed 199 to 7, last week, a bill permitting the re-election of former Mexican presidents, providing that one presidential term elapses between the end of their tenure of office and their reelection. This measure was rushed through by the friends of onetime President Alvaro Obregon. He and President Calles are the twin political idols of the anticlerical faction now in power. Presumably the bill passed by the Chamber last week will be railroaded through the Senate with equal...
...became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil War. He backed up every item of goods he sold with a warranty of its soundness and value and he sold only for "cash." "Cash" meant the exact day, 30 to 60 days after billing, on which a bill was due, else no more dealings with Field, Leiter...