Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening they celebrated the political demise of John D. Williams, head of the highway commission, whose removal was necessary for the passage of Mr. Stephenson's "road ripper" bill. With solemn reeling the Grand Dragon pronounced the rites...
...future. To the farmer it can only mean getting out of bed earlier in the morning than is his wont, and to the trainmen, a mystifying schedule of changing times which endangers the lives of passengers and others. This was convincingly set forth at the trial of the bill for unconstitutionality...
...This here's Hawg Eye, air y'u lost?" Such was the soul harrowing information garnered by C. G. Croncis, an assistant in the Paleontology department of the University, when he ventured a question of a group of bill billies after losing his way on a motor trip through the Ozark Mountains last summer...
...professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the Peter Pan of Princeton, was, of course, toastmaster. Down the majestic stairway, slowly into the room came Vincent Richards, star, "logical" successor...
...Bill" Tilden, able Davis Cup defender. Besides him walked his wife. C. C. Pyle then glanced here, there, rose, announced: "Ladies, Gentlemen . . . Mr. Vincent Richards, greatest male tennis player in the world . . . is now a professional." An orchestra blared...