Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...destroy without first removing the crew and offering them the very good hospitality of his own vessel. It would be gratifying if the same praise might be said of the hospitality of his subsequent captors. His deeds of daring rival the tales of days before mud and trenches, and cast a much needed glow of romance on the dismal panorama of a sordid...
...scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added: "W'hen the patient left the operating table her condition was good." But gangrene set in, because (he says) the woman was removed from the Osteopathic Hospital; because (say her relatives) Dr. Schireson bungled a needless operation. Other...
...featured role. Or the History 3 section men might, with the aid of the Department of Zoology and the Military Science staff, put on a Roman holiday in the Stadium with the chairman of the Department occupying the imperial loge in Section 18, the Sargent and Radcliffe girls cast as Vestal Virgins in Section 23, and the members of the course, betoga'ed for the occasion, really "living" the period which they are studying. There is no limit to the pageants which might be staged. Not even the Congress of Vienna, staged in Sanders Theatre, is impossible, though...
...elusive a person to be easily recognized in his complete state. Now at least a step has been taken toward his identification, but if he is inclined to come forth at last from his long seclusion it is to be feared that upon perceiving that he has cast ahead of him such a shadow as this, he may bolt back into hiding like the ground hog to wait for a more favorable opportunity...
...Mystery Man. The plight of a slightly intoxicated clubman who came home one happy evening and found a dead man on his couch is herewith hammered home. A large cast is rushed upon the stage and accused with varying degrees of inaccuracy of the shooting. These inaccuracies make it a mystery play. It is unre-sourceful entertainment...