Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High Road. Had Author Frederick Lonsdale chosen to write a true and biting comedy instead of an exceptionally witty tragedy he might have made The High Road an even more exciting reiteration of an old theme than he did. His story is that of an actress loved by an heir; like the tortoise in the fable, the actress is the winner...
...with the aid of a huge funny waiter, played by Billy House. Billy House moved about the stage like a grinning Guava jelly, singing "Whoopee" with suave insinuations. The girls in the chorus, though they danced well, looked, with one, or possibly two, exceptions, as if they had been chosen from the occupants of an East Side subway car before the rush hour. The Lief lyrics, though not Gilbertian, were cheerful; the music of Maurice Yvain was pleasantly plentiful...
...whole. Its members are not legally bound to carry out the voters' will. Its members are not paid for their important services, and since their names are noticed or remembered by very few voters, they are scarcely honored. Moreover, the electors of any State may be chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does, the reason being that it has been transformed from an important bit of governmental machinery...
Article II of the Constitution provided that the electors should be chosen as prescribed by the State Legislatures. Some Legislatures used to choose the electors themselves. Elsewhere the people elected them-a small group of known, trusted, respected men who were sent to the State capitals, where each man voted for two national candidates without indicating which candidate he wanted for President, which for Vice President. The election of 1800 was thrown into the House of Representatives because no candidate had a majority of electoral votes. Aaron Burr managed to delay the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency...
...Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to their Representative. But as party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names...