Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition of the body are false. On the contrary, we are now more than ever certain of the infallibility of our method." Thereupon it was announced that by October the Lenin tomb would be air-conditioned. Zbarsky had been fearful lest on warm days currents of air set in motion by throngs of pilgrims prove "injurious" to the body. After the conditioning equipment is installed it was thought that Lenin could safely be viewed all day and all night in any weather...
...important motion pictures in three years will be made in color. . . . Within three years, or perhaps two, the British film industry will be as great in productions and earning power as the American. . . . The British sunlight is just as lovely as the American sunlight. . . . The cinema must forget its eternal preoccupation with love stories...
...September 8 there will be a meeting of the officers of the Alumni which was adjourned on motion of Josiah Quincy at the bicentennial meeting on September 8, 1836. At that time a box, sealed at that meeting with the contents unrecorded, will be opened. The meeting will then adjourn until September 18 when the entire body of Alumni will convene...
...discourage Greyhound's backers, scratched him off their boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter to take the Hambletonian Stake in straight heats since Walter Dear in 1929. A lean, grey, three-year-old gelding, singularly unimpressive when not in fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker of St. Charles...
...Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have assumed that Jean Harlow...