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Word: cast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave of the #47. Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news. Long after it was apparent that there would be no news, the Rodney, with half a gale still heaving her about and with seaplanes flying watch overhead, cast wreaths of white lilies on the sea, fired a salute, steamed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Called from Cricket | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes away, but she only pretends to have somebody with her. Her tentative paramour gets off the train as it is leaving the station. William Somerset Maugham's epigrams on the sound device, and intelligent acting by a well-chosen cast, suggest what U. S. audiences have learned to accept as the authentic atmosphere of a London drawing-room. Imogene Wilson, now Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing epigrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Cast and Robert Wood, in the Sikorsky called 'Untin' Bowler, were at Port Burwell, Labrador, last week, trying to get away, detained by bad weather. Crushing ice damaged their anchored ship. A half-gale swept it to sea, a total loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when I read in your eyes." The cast, especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their profession, and Lois Moran, act and talk competently and at times with distinction. Somehow they subdue the silliness of their material enough to make it distantly credible. The scenarist has retained continuity in spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Editor Wood, enthralled, got Publisher McCormick to agree. Failing the services of Pilot Eielson, Cramer suggested tall, bald Pilot Robert H. Cast, 33, whom Mr. McCormick soon commandeered from his friend John Daniel Hertz, onetime Yellow Cab tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Untin' Bowler | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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