Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original company had the ability to present some sort of social message. But the present conglomeration does little more than drift from one vaguely funny bit of profanity to the next. If there is any vestige of significance in the play at all, it is destroyed by a cast that neither understands what the author was trying to get at, nor tries in any way to say anything important...
Senator Connally was cast in the role of a filibustering Southerner who feared that the Senate might actually invoke cloture† and bring the distasteful Marcantonio bill to a vote. He played it straight, without a single giveaway. In his most sonorous tones he pleaded: "Ah ... do not choke us, do not throw around us the cloak of silence. ... We beg of you not to throttle us, not to throttle the truth, not to throttle the right...
...Allies put a price on his head, charged him with "not having said Mass for six years, of blaspheming, of not wearing long robes ... of fornication with his mustachioed old housekeeper." He disappeared for a year, reappeared briefly in Rome on a prancing white stallion to cast his vote in the election of Pope Innocent XIII. By then he was almost forgotten by the warring powers. At the age of 88, Alberoni died, leaving behind him a seminary for the education of indigent student priests, a plan for the federation of Europe...
...Peasantry for a description of this curious scion of a wild boar and a native highland sow. The pig was "a tall, loose species, with legs of an unusual length, with no flesh, short ears, as if they had been cropped, and with long faces of a highly intellectual cast. They were also of such activity -that few greyhounds could clear a ditch or cross a field with more agility or speed. Their backs formed a rainbow arch, capable of being contracted or extended to an inconceivable degree...
There are many modern techniques for unearthing clues. For example, laboratories can now determine (by the "dermal nitrate test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts...