Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, Warner-Stanley and Independent Motion Picture Theatre Owners Association threatened to close down their 475 theatres within two weeks unless the boycott of all Philadelphia cinemansions, proposed by Denis Cardinal Dougherty, was rescinded. Said Warner General Manager Joseph Bernhard...
...those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare for U. S. cinemaddicts. Pictures too dirty to pass Censor Breen will be subjected to scrutiny, not as heretofore by a friendly committee of three producers, but by a special convention of the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. A producer who releases a picture without a Breen O. K. or that of the Hays directors may be fined...
...from a noisy minority, were prepared to accept the fact that cleaner pictures are, at least temporarily, necessary. Columbia's Vice President Jack Cohn voiced the opinion of the industry to his salesmen in Atlantic City: "This violent burst of condemnation is directed against something greater than the motion picture. . . . The motion picture reflects the thing against which the Crusaders inveigh-the tendencies of the times...
...sucker.... I never did so much in the market although I did do pretty well in the motion picture business. . . . My experience is that money made in speculation is negligible in amount when compared to the returns received by those who invest their money in gilt-edged securities and hold on to them...
...himself on hot days by lighting a little fire in front of the bench and pretending to be an Indian, who is so popular that when he pitches the club's advertisements say: "Dizzy Dean - in person." While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy overhand motion, balancing the backswing of his left hand with the upswing of a size-13 cleated shoe. The dignity and competence of his demeanor contrast strangely with the stories of his eccentricities. These are partly true, partly the framework of legend invented to support another one of baseball's superstitions...