Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mechanism prescribed by law, the electors chosen by the people at the November election meet, each group in its own state, and cast their ballots (on the second Monday in January). The ballots are sent to Congress in duplicate-one set by registered mail, the other by special messenger. A third copy of the ballots is deposited with the Federal Judge of the district. If no copy has been received by the Congress, the Secretary of State sends a special messenger to get the results...
...days of yore, the good citizens of Athens filed past the urns and as they passed each one dropped a white shell or a black. If the black shells were more numerous than the white, then woe be to the man concerning whom the shells were cast, for he was ostracized and for ten years under pain of death must remain an exile from his native city...
...Wife of the Centaur. A centaur was half a man, half a beast. Author Cyril Hume knew that when he named his book. The producers forgot it when they cast sleek John Gilbert for exuberant Jeffrey Dwyer, taut poet, who loved one girl (Aileen Pringle) and married another (Eleanor Boardman). The producers also overlooked the fact that the one girl, who had later to cope with an idiot husband, furnished well over a third of the tale's power. Cheers for this film, if any, should be dedicated to Miss Boardman, the one able performer...
CANDIDA-Katherine Cornell and a distinguished cast giving some of the best of Shaw...
This Book What of Howells' cast of mind, the nature of his work? Others having collated the external revelations of Howells; a patient, discriminating scholar has now set to work upon the vast cumulus of Howells' literary secretions, as would a paleontologist upon the ponderous remains of a dinosaur. He spreads them out, classifies them; then pores, probes, weighs, analyzes, to educe both a composite picture of the author and a meticulous evaluation of the cumulus itself...