Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Result of the nth ballot: total number of votes cast, 1,098; necessary for a choice, 732. Totals for this ballot: McAdoo 488½ Smith 336½ Davis of West Virginia 72½ Underwood 46½ Baker 57; Glass 26; Governor Bryan 3; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16½ Saulsbury 6; Owen 2; Walsh of Montana 1; Will Rogers 1; M. A. Coolidge ½ (or perhaps the trailers at the end might be Senator Copeland, Josephus Daniels, the Mayor of New Orleans, of Chicago or of Montpelier). No one having received the required number of votes, the Secretary will call the roll for the nth ballot...
...little darling" goodnight before she scampers upstairs to her supper, Captain January was just made for you. The story, which flourished during Elsie Dinsmore's palmy days, is of a sea-tossed waif, rescued and reared by a hungry hearted lighthouse-keeper. Stock villainy and fairy godmotherhood (both well cast) complete the plot. Take the children...
...ordinary circumstances, Mr. Norris would show as much love for a High-Church Bishop as for the Pope of Rome, whom he regards as anti-Christ, but his alliance with the Bishop in the Heaton case was made necessary by a demand for more liberal lambs (or goats) to cast on the altar of his Searchlight. Out came the Searchlight (100,000 circulation) with screamer headline: HEATON, MODERNIST, CORNERED AND EXPOSED. The Bishop chuckled with glee. Frank Norris had given Heaton not more than six months to live in Texas?and Two-gun Norris gets...
...Spring passes into Summer, it becomes more and more apparent that American business will not really get its bearings until the political conventions are over, and until the results of the Fall's election as far as they will affect trade can be intelligently fore cast. With the Democratic candi date still unknown, both "platforms" yet unannounced, and the seriousness of La Follette's third party gesture not clearly determined, a tone of hesitation in the markets is quite natural...
...beginning of Commencement Week is a particularly appropriate occasion on which to stop, for a moment, and cast a sentimental glance backward. The Senior, about to take a last bathetic farewell of all that has gone to make up his University Atmosphere for Four Long Years, may be pardoned if, for the moment, he counts himself educated, and gives to Alma Mater all the credit for Making Him What He is in regard to Culture and Intelligence...