Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...
...cinema industry the small gold- washed statuets which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually awards for meritorious productions and performances are called "Oscars.'' Usually Oscars are awarded in November. Last autumn, defection of half the Academy's membership in the dissension over paycuts caused a shortage of cash, made it appear that there might be no Oscars at all. Last month. 30 members of the Academy put up $50 each for statuets and the Academy's annual banquet. The winners...
...Noyes Wescott, author of "David Harum" died before his book was published and consequently could not enjoy the material benefits of being the writer of the smash hit of the early 1900's. Members of another generation will be able to remember when several of the lines in the motion pictures were the sayings and by-words...
Nominated as candidates for awards at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual banquet next week...
...very greatest of motion pictures. Such enthusiastic verdicts as 'masterpiece' and 'super-epic' are tossed about so freely that constant usage tends to destroy much of their value....but in discussing this film it is imperative to bring them out once more...