Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That picture would have to include motion-picture and sound effects, too-the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole...
...passed and "Bras" Deen offered a privileged resolution: "Resolved . . . That the two Houses of Congress shall adjourn on Tuesday, the 23rd day of July, 1935 . . . sine die." Up jumped Rules Chairman O'Connor, moved to table the resolution. Speaker Byrns called for those in favor of tabling the motion: a chorus of "Ayes." Then he called for those opposed: a much louder, heartier chorus of "Noes." "The Ayes appear to have it," opined Speaker Byrns. Representative Deen and Republican Leader Snell jumped to their feet demanding a division. Forced to stand up and be counted, Representatives were far less...
...other country, perhaps, could a Prime Minister get away with bumbling Mr. Baldwin's amazing penultimate sentence. The House of Commons promptly squelched Labor's motion to censure...
Expositor & Homiletic Review: "The Church has hurt the income of the motion picture barons. . . . Retaliation is only to be expected. . . . Take a special offering, enlist your adult and junior organizations...
...firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress...