Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Know What the Bill of Fare Means...
...many concentrate in it); but a great many men would get E if they were given a test which required them to define all the words from Anthropology to Zoology--which are names of departments under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The man who cannot read the bill of fare may get something to eat, but he cannot be said to have chosen his courses...
...life and society is so constant that the somewhat nebulous "average man" soon grows deaf to it. But occasionally there occurs an event which not only justifies complaint, but which makes the present outcry appear to be the mildest of protests. Such is the history of the New Hampshire bill to prohibit the sale of cosmetics...
That a group of sane minded men should sit in solemn conclave, discuss, deliberate, and finally pass a bill that dictates what, or what shall not be used to beautify feminine cheeks, is assuredly the height of Babbittism. The news has just arrived from the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt that the princess, who was first thought to be wife of Sneferuw, used green cosmetic. If the walls of the tomb had also contained a solemn royal edict to the effect that no such decoration was to be used by the women of the Nile valley, the explorers would doubtless...
Notice has been given by Club authorities that no tickets may be charged on the Club bill by members. Tickets will be given out and must be paid for at the door...