Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that Edward W. Bok is building a "Singing Tower" with the finest and largest carillon ever cast, located at Mountain Lake, the highest spot yet found in Florida, near Lake Wales...
...tower rises to a height of 205 feet 2 inches. The canllon has 61 bells with 48 tones and was cast at John Taylor & Sons Bell-foundry at Loughborough, England. They will be shipped to the States within a few months...
...last week handed down decisions that may bear critically on the November election. Each decided that the Democratic Party, being in no sense a governmental agency but only a social-political organization, is entirely within its rights in determining for itself what shall be the qualification for citizens who cast votes in primary elections held under its auspices. The suits were brought, of course, by Negroes who asked that the Democrats be enjoined from barring out Negroes. The decisions made it clear that the Democrats had discovered the simplest method yet of disfranchising Negroes. Certificates from Democratic primaries...
...exclaiming reproachfully, "Oh Helen, / should never refuse to be a queen!" To counteract the sensation produced by this generally believed tale, Princess Emma's mother herself arranged to convey a subsequently made proposal of marriage from King Willem to Princess Emma, and gave out that the "surprised" Princess cast down her eyes, exclaiming, "Oh Mother! Do you want me to accept him? Do you order me to do so?" "No, no, dear child. Make your own choice. Only the King is lonely and unhappy." "Unhappy," cried Little Minx Emma, according to her mother, "Then I will...
...international money-juggling. If wise Gov. Strong, fresh from a meeting of master minds, thought Chicago should reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½% to aid his European comrades in finance, only bad manners or sheer contrariness could explain Chicago's dissent. Gov. Strong was cast for the hero's role in the drama of U. S. money. Obviously, all that remained for Chicago was to be the juvenile or the villain...