Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lure the Dixie Senators, one-half of this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization fee was to be deferred for three years. This alliance was supposed to be potent enough to bring at least a tie vote. Thereupon, Vice President Dawes would probably cast the deciding vote in favor of the bill. Mr. Coolidge would veto the measure, and embarrassment of the Administration, if nothing else, would ensue...
Perhaps Senator Watson and farm-allies had been too frisky. It appeared that the President had skillfully cast the responsibility for farm legislation back on Congress, with the result that farm-champions might be forced to abandon their heroic role and take what modicum of farm relief the Administration was willing to approve...
...Such a cast has seldom been assembled back of a single stage. They have been supplied with excellent music, a joyous slapstick, a succession of amazingly beautiful sets and costumes. George White asked $55 a seat for the first nine rows. No one demanded money back. The Grand Street Follies. The Neighborhood Playhouse buried in the slums emerges with its annual summer satire. This is the secluded organization that this season astonished and stirred the population with The Dybbuk. From this solemn business they have turned to trifles spun of song and dance...
...SUNKEN GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble...
Upon the Plaza de la Constitución towered a great funeral pyre. From a platform before it the Bishop celebrated mass. Then a match crackled, the pyre towered into flame. For an hour, untiring, zealous, the Bishop cast upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...