Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from one W. A. Aiken, self-styled "92-year old Green Mountain boy," revived the Coolidge"third term" perennial. Mr. Aiken wrote that he had cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and that he hoped to cast what will probably be his last for Calvin Coolidge, in 1928. The fact that the President thanked Mr. Aiken, and that the Aiken letter was allowed to see the light at all "is "is regarded as significant...
...fine August morning in 1925, the Danish Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body...
...afternoon last week, Grenville Collins, producer of Sun-Up, Lula Vollmer's play of the Carolina Mountains which has an all-American cast,, was called to the telephone by the Lord Chamberlain's Department and asked to provide boxes for the King and Queen that evening. Shortly before the curtain rang up, their Majesties, accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept...
Many good people who have all their lives been governed by the polity of this resonant sentiment were amazed at the impotent efforts of that angry septuagenarian, Viscount Gladstone, and his elder brother, Henry N. Gladstone, to refute the slurs cast upon the name of the celebrated statesman, their late father, by "an insolent varlet, a professional mud-spatterer, a cowardly bootlicker" named Captain Peter Wright in his recent book, Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). "Why don't they sue the stinking reptile?" such people have exclaimed in the vehemence of their sympathy...
...replied Borglum. With the sculptor was his son, Lincoln Borglum. "Tell the man about Bryan, Daddy," suggested Lincoln. Hill-Hammerer Borglum then spoke of William Jennings Bryan, related how, before he resigned as Secretary of State, the Great Commoner requested him to make a mask of his face, a cast of his hands...