Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though deprived of civic eligibility, he thumbed his nose and ran again in 1918 anyway. He even ran for President in 1920, getting 100,000 votes. Two years ago he conceived and executed his brilliant scheme of having his wife elected Governess on an Anti-Klan plank. An amnesty bill was ram med through the legislature to make him thoroughly respectable once more; and all might have been serene except that, as he sat at the executive desk helping his wife out, he was careless again and let some highway contracts get by, which necessitated the resignation of two highway...
...Grew restless as the hour of their august dinners approached and the Earl de la Warr, Viscount Haldane, and Barons Parmoor, Arnold, Thomson, ("Labor Peers") began a determined filibuster against the bill...
...Returned under the banner of Lord Salisbury who cried: "It is quite obvious what these noble (filibustering) Lords are trying to do. It is an abuse of the traditions and privileges of the House. I move that the question be now put!" (The bill passed 44 to 4, was signed by the King-Emperor...
...Lifted disdainful eyebrows as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod shepherded before the bar of the Lords many an M. P. - several grumbling audibly at their obligation to hear read His Majesty's assent to the bill...
...field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble a long putt on the last green. The 294 was still best; Turnesa waited...