Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fell to the lot of Wesley Livsey Jones, Republican Senator from Washington, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and official senatorial sponsor of the Harding subsidy plan of a year ago, to introduce in the Senate some suitable plan. His plan is represented by two bills for rendering indirect aid to the hard-pressed American merchant marine...
Within a comparatively few hours the insurrectionists were joined by the Navy and the States of Guerrero, Michoacan, Jalisca, Oxaca, San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas were later reported to have cast in their lot with de la Huerta...
...capture certain forged despatches-how Scevola, mad with jealousy, planned to murder Real, and Real, mad with duty, thought the only way out of the pitiful tangle was to let himself be captured with the forged despatches and so leave Arlette forever-and how Peyrol calmly outwitted the lot of them, saved Real for Arlette, removed Scevola from the scene and delivered the forged despatches at the price of his own life- is the theme of the story. He could not save the French fleet, for the gods were against him, but he saved the Escampobars and fooled the English...
...seasoned by a liberal supply of slapstick and it adds up to substantial entertainment. The story reveals the Squire of Don Quixote in process of ruling the fanciful city of Barataria. Thus are the satire and the politics neatly wrapped and delivered. The slapstick falls chiefly to the lot of one Robert Rossire, who muffles his true being in the folds and fur of Dapple, Sancho's mule. While Mr. Skinner 'dominated the proceedings, Dapple was responsible for the most engaging drolleries. The most significant features of the production were the spectacular settings and direction for which Richard Boleslawsky...
...last year's report stated, that "no plan of distribution can satisfactorily solve the seating problem", since there simply are not enough seats to go around. But with the situation as it is the Athletic Association has done admirably. The system of seating graduate classes in general by lot, whether or not classes holding reunions are to be favored, the reductions in the "privileged list", and the noticeable attempt to place single-seat applicants together with men whom they are likely to know, are all very praiseworthy and have received general approval...