Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotunda, 96 ft. below the dome, workmen unpacked the statue of Thomas Jefferson, raised it section by section to its black marble pedestal. The sun, streaming between the pillars, cast moving patterns of light and shadow over the workers. Their voices echoed somberly in the great room. A few visitors peered...
Since the number of ballots a voter could cast in La Prensa's poll was limited only by the number of copies of La Prensa he could get his hands on, the poll had a somewhat dubious quality. But since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...
...great days of the New Amsterdam Theater, where the late, great Florenz Ziegfeld made summer official with a new Follies. Perhaps memory winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
...biggest year. To match the Indians' Boykoff, the Cowboys had 6 ft. 7 Milo Komenich, like Boykoff one of the season's leading scorers (401 points) and one of the few Eiffel-tower basketballers who can really play the game. The Cowboys also had a supporting cast all at least 6 ft. 3-with one exception. The exception, a little dynamo named Kenny Sailors, made it tough for St. John...
...Secretary Numan won out by a one-vote lead in perhaps the closest election of the year. Richard W. Mechem closely trailed his narrow lead, having 60 votes to Nunan's 61. In third place with 57 votes was Michael J. De Leo. Two hundred and seventy-three men cast votes for the seven Secretary-nominees listed on the ballot. Election Results Class Secretary Thomas Richard Nunan, Jr. 61 Permanent Class Committee Dean McDonald Hennessey 148 Sidney Olsen Smith, Jr. 148 Richard Watson Mechem 146 Peter Garland 142 James Edmund McNulty, Jr. 128 Donald Westgate Richards 119 John Winters Fisher...