Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Story. In Shreveport, La., C. E. Whitney returned from nearby Cross Lake with a fish story: on one cast he caught five catfish. Someone had lost a string of five, and one of the five went for Whitney's worm...
...them were superfluous and could have been saved had we a British alphabet. The same rate of waste on the 465,000,000 letters printed annually by the Times gives us 94,136,952* superfluous letters, every one of which has to be legibly written . . . read . . . set up . . . cast. . . and machined...
...first story it is cast up at the feet of a Welsh child named Hoöl. Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...
...Bosetti's operas cost $1,000 a night, fill the acoustically poor auditorium for three nights. Merchants buy plenty of space in the program, and the production usually nets the Catholic Charities $5,000. When the Denver opera season approaches, Monsignor Bosetti rolls up his sleeves, picks a cast strictly on merit; it turns out to be 75% non-Catholic. Ray Baber, leading baritone, is the son of a Protestant minister. Since amateur voices may get out of kilter, two or three singers alternate in principal roles. Of the three chosen for last week's Carmen...
More About Nostradamus opens with the violation of the tomb of Astrologer Michel de Notredame, court physician to France's King Charles IX. All sequences of the short are narrated while a silent cast plays the scenes. They proceed to tell the story of Nostradamus' life. He was born in 1503 at Saint-Remy, Provence. A devout French Catholic of Jewish descent, he won distinction for his medical labors during France's plague. In 1555 he published his Centuries, written to foretell the future...