Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Failing to obtain George Arliss or Godfrey Tearle for Caesar, the Guild chose Lionel Atwill. His magnificent presence enhanced the role's potentialities; his heavy humor and his cloudy diction deadened them. Helen Hayes, though very lovely and expert, was occasionally caught in her inexhaustible supply of cuteness. Helen Westley, veteran of many a Guild production, seemed to lack entirely the sinister severity of Ftatateeta. The best performance was contributed by Henry Travers as Britannus. The production was magnificent and the new theatre certainly the finest, the most comfortable and the most beautiful in Manhattan...
...western end was divided into four recitation rooms; its eastern end contained, on the ground floor, the chemical lecture-room and laboratory and up stairs the anatomical lecture and dissecting rooms. In these last-named rooms was given all the instruction to the undergraduates of the Senior class who chose also to attend the lectures...
...struggle that developed was not inspired from without. It arose entirely within the small circle which circumscribes the President and the Senate. The President chose his nominee. The Senate objected to Mr. Warren?objected on its own initiative, for, during the entire contest, no protest against him was filed with the Judiciary Committee...
...time when the Italian Government is dropping courtesies to the Church of Rome and the latter is significantly but coldly observing the amenities, His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, chose to issue a pastoral letter to his flock on the subject of "Thou shalt not kill...
...Stewart's subject was "Life and the Pursuit of Happiness." "I chose this quotation from the Declaration of Independence," he explained, "because it includes almost everything." And over almost everything his wit wandered in the course of his lecture...