Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a single ballot was cast Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera brazenly and confidently declared: "The plebiscite will signify approval by public opinion in all classes of life of the work realized by the Government...
...Approach. Perhaps it was that colossal, utterly abandoned effort by Mr. Joyce to glut up and put on paper the total sensory-esthetic experience of a handful of slovenly Dubliners during 24 hours that encouraged Mr. Wells to cast pattern to the winds and glut up the entire experience, in ideas and emotions, of a British scientist reminiscent on and after his 59th birthday...
Meanwhile, in Arizona, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, all good citizens scurried to the polls last week, cast their primary votes...
...three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close the one you are supposed never to have suspected seriously is revealed as guilty. It is all delightfully thrilling fun, and Paul Harvey, as the detective in charge of the case, gives an exceptional performance...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...