Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparently a custom in Philadelphia not only to discover that ballots cast for an opponent of the machine are invalid or have been discreetly mislaid in the counting, but to cast votes freely for those who have for some reason or other been unable to come to the polls at all. A Dartmouth undergraduate coming down to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving lamented that he had not been able to get down before to vote for Wilson, only to discover that he had voted for Vare after all. Cases of this sort are multiplying as the investigation of the Committee of Seventy...
...total number of ballots cast, 519 was much larger than last year. The vote represents a large majority of the 700 students in the class of 1927. Only five ballots were thrown out, as compared with 51 in last year's elections...
...duty of making up the members of the cast has been assigned to E. P. Goodnow...
...disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their due, and the cast will be equally lucky if it gets its cues...
...type of play growing from the intrigues of the Restoration. The plot is somewhat originally handled; the jokes are on the shady side of forty, and beginning to show their age. Yet the play is funny, exceedingly so, and rather satisfactory, despite the acting of most of the cast. Admirers of Mr. Clive and his policy of stressing the farce will get theirs at "Tons of Money...