Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolute majorities, large majorities; 2) that although there was a Presidential landslide in 1924, it failed to sweep in the customary large party majorities in the Senate, in the House and in state governments. From the standpoint of the voter, it signifies that many "split-ticket" ballots were cast and that the split-ticket vote largely determined the election. From the standpoint of candidates it means Coolidge on the one hand and large numbers of Democratic candidates on the other hand; that the Democratic candidates individually had sufficiently strong holds on their constituents to split tickets in wholesale fashion...
Miss Burke, still brilliantly youthful, seized all the honors of the happy event although the cast included, with the usual Ziegfeld prodigality, Ernest Truex, Marion Green, Bobby Watson and May Vokes. Her voice is a pretty toy to be played with rather than taken seriously. Possibly the relative unimportance of the music made it seem so. Not that it mattered. The play and the character are more than an evening's entertainment...
...been supposed that the Metropolitan would choose for its opening Fedora, Maria Jeritza's latest triumphant impersonation. But Signer Gatti-Casazza, shrewd impressario, had planned otherwise. Verdi, well-tried veteran, was called into service and Aida was the safe and sane choice, with a familiar safe and sane cast. There was no Caruso, no Farrar, no Jeritza. There was instead a new conductor, one Tullio Serafin, carefully discriminating and strangely energetic after the somnolent Mr. Moranzoni...
...streets, peasants and quality lifted up their hands to him, or left their homes to follow (unfed but by their own harsh ecstacy) the passage of his footsteps through the winter of the land. Such a one does not go without enemies, though by what agency the plot was cast for his overthrow is as obscure as the bomb was efficient...
...have ever seen, and it is acted superbly. J. J. Collier '24, as the secretary, has the most serious bit of interpretation to perform, and does it well. Among the rest, Houston Richards gives the most sterling characterization. The honors for most humorous must be divided among the entire cast; indeed, the Boston Stock Company will probably be forced to raise its salaries if it wants to retain the competent staff it now boasts...