Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gillet & Johnson, bell founders, had cast the great carillon in Croyden, England, to the order of Mr. Rockefeller, who designed it as a memorial to his mother, There is no tawdry arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world...
...member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained therein...
...most of the all-American selections this year. Serious personal injury would probably have been his lot in other institutions where students are more impulsive than at Columbia. Perhaps, even among Columbia's countless apathetic thousands, only a football player could attempt what this young man did without being cast from the top of Grant's tomb...
...expected the comedy was carefully and admirably prepared. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, surely our leading stage and off-stage husband and wife, had the leads. Henry Travers, Pedro de Cordoba and other familiar faces rounded out the cast. Since the play was written so many years ago, it was wisely staged in the fashion of that day, and has become, within the lifetime of the author, a costume play...
...freaks of the primary was the Democratic contest. William George Bruce, named by the Democratic state organization, lacked sufficient popular support, although he was unopposed on the ballot, and failed to poll 5% of the Democratic vote cast in Wisconsin at the last election. According to Wisconsin law a candidate must poll in the primaries at least 5% of his party's vote in the previous election. Bruce failed to do so. No other Demo-crat did. Consequently there will be no regular Democratic candidate in the election, although Bruce will run as an independent Democrat...