Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national elections, got its first smell of this year's political powder last week. Congressional primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which now is occupied by blarney...
...Duce v. II Papa. The cold and formal relations existing today between the Government of Italy and the Vatican are due, in no small measure, to that shadow of mutual suspicion still cast by the original anti-Roman Catholic proclivities of Signor Mussolini, which loom so large in the pages of Claudia...
Latest returns showed that exactly one vote was cast for the rival candidate, Dr. Jorge E. Boyd, put forward by Don Belisario Porras, onetime (1912-16; 1920-24) president and leader of the opposition. Only one opposition vote was cast, because adherents of that party strictly obeyed Don Belisario Porras when he exhorted them to boycott the polls last fortnight after liberal police had seized fifteen opposition leaders, one a retired capitalist, and popped them into jail as "revolutionaries...
...Government already by frauds and threats of violence controls an enormous majority of the voting certificates which are the basis of the election. We have the voters, but they have the certificates. Government supporters may cast several votes for each voter...
...education of a poor boy, U. S. Smith of the U. S. Marines plans to raise money by throwing a prize fight. But the poor boy says: "No, you mustn't do that." And so U. S. Smith knocks out his opponent, wins glory and a girl. Undistinguished cast, undistinguished action...