Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rejected the House resolution to adjourn May 27. (The Senators were tied, 40 to 40. Vice President Dawes cast his vote to keep Congress sitting. Friends of the Boulder Dam Bill were pleased...
...Miss Clementine Miller, Columbus, Ind.; and Mrs. Charles Deere Wiman, Moline, Ill. Among practicing British actresses indignation was intense, last week, at the presentation of Monologuist Draper. Was she any the less an "actress," they stormed, because during her recitals she assumes successively all the roles of an entire cast instead of confining herself to one? Somebody ought to speak to the Lord Chamberlain! Shameful that he should let the bars down in favor of an American. Probably some relation to Coolidge. Fiddlers in his family, too, My Dear! Courtiers smiled away such absurdities. They recalled that Edward of Wales...
...Urchin Taft lived in Elmwood because his father taught school there; it was after his father, Don Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father...
...movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain will be thrown into pleasant convulsions by the crudities of this noisy, dirty farce. Helen Baxter was the only member of the cast who acted her part...
...Coolidge denies this. In two paragraphs of his Memorial Day speech at Gettysburg, he cast aside the conclusions of the expert psychologist and criminologist, to avow his faith in the existent American machinery of justice. There might be grit in the works, but the design was good, and the wheels would revolve in silence when chicanery and flummery among judges was cleaned...