Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what great thing will come. It will be Christmas, and the holly and misletoe, and the joyous annual exchange of gifts. No human interest like Christmas! Once it did not exist at all in New England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There are those who think that a mere universal exchange of gifts most of which nobody wants, is a foolish institution; but the fact remains that our people once did not have it, and deliberately introduced...
...Workshop will inaugurate its fifth season with two performances on December 8 and 9 at Agassiz House. The bill includes a one-act fantasy, "Will-o'-the-Wisp," by Miss Doris Halman, and a farce-comedy in three acts, "The Colonel's Connupence," by Miss Katherine Clugston. Both authors are in the advanced course in playwrighting, English 47a, at Radcliffe...
...boat go down by front or the bow?" and "Why didn't the passengers go into the water-tight bulkheads to keep from drowning?" for the continuance of our naval policy, which Mr. Whittlesey is afraid to leave to the party that put into law the naval bill--and to Boise Penrose and Joseph Fordney of "special interest" fame for the "fair and honest" tariff. And as to foreign affairs, they will be in control of such men as James Mann and Henry A. Cooper, of Wisconsin, both of whom voted for the McLemore Resolution, to abrogate American rights...
...reference to the Adamson Bill Mr. Palue excuses "legislation before inves- tigation," only on the ground that investigation can not tell us as much as experience can. Now if we cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations...
...definitely and rightly settled." Mr. Paine says that Mr. Wilson has definitely repudiated the hyphenates--but, of course, he has not heard of the appeals made by the President's representatives at a Third avenue beer-garden. Secondly he cites as points in Mr. Wilson's favor the Army Bill, which disappointed and disgusted Secretary Garrison, and the Naval Bill "which," he says, "has done more for the navy than decades of previous Republican legislation." Increase of the navy, by the way, is something that no Republican (or Democratic) administration would have considered right in times of general peace...