Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than hogs were especially pleased by Three Little Pigs. The process that made the porkers pink was Technicolor and the two pleased young men were the cousins John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who last week announced that they had bought a substantial share of Technicolor Motion Picture Corp. They also announced they were forming a production company. Pioneer Pictures, with Cousin Jock for president, to make feature-length colored films...
...acquaintance begins an irresistible progress toward a more vital relationship it sets the scene for a struggle between will and emotion. The striking feature of this struggle in "Christopher Strong," is that it occurs in the minds of two individuals of high intellectual and moral calibre. Temptation, in the motion pictures, is usually depicted as assailing victims whose week resistance is foreordained...
...attorney a lawyer of the judge's choosing, of granting excessive fees to his appointees, of picking incompetents to serve as receivers. It took the House managers four days to put before the Senate a mass of technical evidence in support of their charges. Vetoing his counsels' motion for dismissal, Judge Louderback insisted upon presenting a full defense in hope of complete exoneration. Receivers whom he had appointed appeared to deny they had split fees with...
...Defeated (227-to-115) a motion to consider a resolution by New York's Sirovich for an investigation of the cinema industry. The idea was howled down as "a joy ride to Hollywood to pose with movie stars." ¶Adopted a conference report on the Farm Relief bill after rejecting (283-to-109) a Senate amendment to guarantee farmers the cost of production; sent the bill to the President...
...They and the incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything...