Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discipline of the land have been cast to the winds, and the strong regard the statutes as scraps of paper, while crimes against person and property go unpunished by the officers. All safeguards of human liberty have been shattered...
Babies A La Carte. One of those stage wills decrees the fortune shall go to that one of two cousins, both ardent birth control advocates, who bears the first baby. Both ladies become flustered, flutter through stereotyped agonies, while the rest of the cast flourish jests too frayed to crack...
...cast was an equally daring move. Only one of the principal female characters was interpreted by an actress who had had speaking experience on the stage. The role of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, was entrusted to a young foreign woman?Rosamond Pinchot of the U. S. As the nun in The Miracle she had won recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First...
...cast forebodings in case President Coolidge should be a successful candidate for another term. Said Editor Cook: "There would be ... feeling against Mr. Coolidge within the ranks of his own party. . . .Up to a certain point . . . one can achieve success without . . . arousing to a fury . . . the iconoclasts who resent the fabrication of ... heroes. Beyond that point . . . the resistance increases as the square of the distance covered...
...could a pair of shifty blackamoors, garbed in cast-off Pullman uniforms make profit out of old stones and garbage without stealing, begging or earning...