Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Election of the four Seniors receiving the highest number of votes cast and of the two Juniors will be announced tomorrow morning. The newly-elected men will meet with the rest of the Council for the first time Monday evening...
...heels of the Liberal Party's defeat in the Pontiac by-election (TIME Sept. 30) the Gallup poll reported: if a federal election were held now the Liberals would get 41% of the votes cast...
...understanding how elections go, the Massachusetts long ballot is perhaps most significant of all. The columnar arrangement so common in other states has never been used, a fact which means that the voter cannot cast a straight party ticket by making a single mark. He must indicate his choice separately for each office; in Presidential years, that task can be onerous even for the most enlightened patriots...
...operetta ragbag-Romany life, dukes, marquises, matinee idols, ballet dancers, imposture, revenge-and Paree. None of this has either a true romantic glow or a sly satiric glitter. The gypsy heroine who aches to be a lady (Helena Bliss) soon has all the more eligible tenors in the cast at her feet-but returns in the end to Sandor, her rough gypsy mate. For though Sandor may lack pelf and polish, he has the sock tune in the show, that great old Victor Herbert chestnut, Gypsy Love Song...
...theories about the nature of infantile paralysis and insists that her own methods of treating the disease (hot packs and exercises) are the one & only effective treatment. Poliomyelitis is the movie's chief villain. But organized medicine, stupidly, relentlessly belittling the indomitable heroine, is also cast as a menace...