Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were many brilliant and capable women in the room," said retiring President Mrs. John Enos Quinn; and it was at their suggestion that she, though she had already voted as a common member, resumed her official capacity and cast another, deciding vote for Mrs. Gallagher...
...When questioned about the home which popular subscription was building for him in Washington, he said that he wanted only a modest house with a small dining-room seating 18 persons. . . . At 62, he married and deeded the house to his wife. The public became as spiteful as a cast-off mistress. . . . The public was ready to jeer in 1900 when Admiral Dewey responded to pressure and naively announced that he was willing to run for President. Said he: "Since studying this subject, I am convinced that the office of the President is not such a very difficult...
...came to inaugurate what may well prove the most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr...
Trial Judge Webster Thayer, cast by Sacco-Vanzetti adherents as the villain of the plot, said last week: "I have made my position clear enough. I did what I had to do. What more can I say? I can only maintain a judicial silence...
Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...