Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Could this, they asked, possibly mean that Mr. Coolidge had decided to snub the Nebraska Senators? Already four nominal Republican Senators (LaFollette, Brookhart, Ladd, Frazier) have been ejected from the party. The Democrats are almost certain to gain ground in the 1926 elections. Could the President possibly afford to cast off even the partial support of the Nebraska Senators? The President did not state...
From the days of Poe, when the detective story was literature, it has de generated. Today, it is usually, writer and reader alike, a mere intel lectual concoction, a puzzle, dependent for interest entirely on its solution, but cast in literary form, with perhaps few thrills of horror thrown in for good measure. The two following examples belong to the latter development but, in their group, they are considerably above the average...
...ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability or clothing, but they all performed very energetically. Aloma is just about bad enough and just sufficiently exciting to be a success...
...Denver, it is announced that a recount of the votes cast in the recent election for Judge of the Juvenile Court gives Judge Ben B. Lindsey a majority of 35. The recount was made necessary by ouster proceedings brought against Judge Lindsey by Royal R. Graham, his defeated opponent (TIME, Apr. 13). Judge Lindsey had first been declared elected by 117 votes...
...Shame -- Yer Honor, it's more 'n a dacent, self-respectin' policeman kin shtand, the way they're pokin fun at the Irish. Cast yer eye at this. (Pulls a Lampoon of April 15 out of his pooket Reads:) Religion an shquash service. Shall the Cathedral uv Sint Archibald th' Iguostic...