Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arliss, for whom the story was written, takes full advantage of his opportunities and gives the best performance of his motion picture career. For the first time since "Disraeli," he ceases to be Arliss, and becomes the character he is depicting. His support: Robert Young, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff, Helen Westley, et el., together with the able directing and technical assistance add to the worth of this excellent picture...
Councilman Charles B. Shea introduced the measure at the last meeting of the council, and at first was met only with ridicule. But a loyal supporter, one J. Gordon Duffy, saw the light, but changed Shea's motion. Shea had asked for twelve horses, but that was too much. Six would be plenty. Six it was, and six it will...
...Mosley at present has is impossible to say. Only accurate gauge is that both succeeded in filling Albert Hall, which seats some 10,000 people, at party mass meetings. Cooler than Commander Locker-Lampson last week. Edward Tumour, Earl of Winterton, hoisted himself to his feet to oppose the motion. First he explained that, as foreign governments have discovered to their dismay, it is practically impossible to define a political uniform. Continued the worthy Earl of Winterton...
...charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility was due to disease contracted in Africa or to a neurotic temperament. Before she finally collapsed she acted in three more pictures for independent producers. Since then she has been on Dr. Woodruff's hands. He is destitute. The Motion Picture Relief Fund contributes money for the young woman's support. Friends send baskets of food and money for medicine. Only time she leaves her room is when she is carried or wheeled to a beach. Always, indoors or out, she wears a veil over her eyes. Her doctor-father...
...support of a motion for a new trial for Thomas Patrick Morris, convicted of conspiracy against the $30,000,000 Wendel estate (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932), three affidavits and a genealogical table were filed in a Manhattan court. The genealogical table showed that an itinerant Pennsylvanian herb doctor named Lewis James Little was a second cousin of the late John G. Wendel. The three affidavits were sworn to by his two daughters and a son-in-law. They all told the same story: Long ago John G. Wendel had summoned Lewis James Little to his Fifth Avenue home to deliver...