Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witnessed her debut as Orfeo. Loved her. Would have married her if she had asked me. She didn't. Might actually have chosen Bernard Shaw and chose a Mr. Rumford instead. What a woman...
...dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee of the Communist Party, his few words were treasured up as pregnant oracles...
Militant conspirators chose a dark hour just before dawn last week to attack the regime of picturesque President General Juan Vincente Gomez, famed 70-year-old Dictator of Venezuela...
Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...
...escape their dilemma the committee members passed the matter entirely to National Chairman William Morgan Butler, in whose quietly determined mind the decision probably rested anyway. Mr. Butler chose, and the committee unanimously elected, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio...