Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall that I said anything about athletics, although a college president can hardly say anything without being supposed to allude slyly to that subject. Of course I believe in athletics sports, as promoting health in body and soul; and, being human, should not be cast down by a larger share of victories...
William Gurdon Saltonstall of Readville was elected President of the class of 1928 in the Sophomore elections, the results of which were announced last night. The most prompt and one of the heaviest votes cast by a Sophomore class was counted last night...
...Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania some of the finer points...
...generous to a fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however, one of the chief stars. His juvenile acting is absolutely genuine and has much charm withal. And with...
...Thursday morning the CRIMSON will perpetrate another radical innovation in college journalism when it will turn over its weekly Crime Column to a group of militant Radcliffe maids who are eager to clear themselves of certain slurs cast upon them by the ill-mannered editors of a wretched little local publication known as the Lampoon...