Word: casts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Vishinsky was unmoved. He apologized for his earlier longwindedness, smiled: "I sinned, but who will cast the last stone?" Then he put the treaty to a vote, clause by clause. In 23 minutes, he whipped his boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his stooges forgot to raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted...
...result, which cast its shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...
...Forest Park flash on, flooding the park with a blinding glare-the signal to the audience that the show is over. One night next week when the lights blaze, about 12,000 Municipal Opera fans will rise to 'their feet and roar out Auld Lang Syne with the cast, as they have regularly at the close of St. Louis' summer operetta seasons since...
...final show, the audiences saw Up in Central Park, with several members of its Broadway cast. The big favorites, however, are such sentimental standbys as The Great Waltz, Show Boat and Babes in Toyland. The directors usually bypass Broadway hits like One Touch of Venus or Bloomer Girl, considering them too gamy for the family trade...
...last week it became a reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...