Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolved," droned the presiding officer, "that this House will not, under any conditions, fight for its King and Country." By a slim majority of six the motion passed. Meanwhile London's historic Punch dealt in scathing verse with the famed Oxford Union whose members have twice voted, both times by overwhelming majorities, never to fight for King & Country...
Producers, union heads and an emergency committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences met at the Roosevelt Hotel. At Hollywood's United Airport, three planes piloted by members of the stunt flyers' union were waiting, in case union demands were not met, to fly over the studios with black trailers as a signal for union labor to quit. The hotel meeting became so excited that when it adjourned with nothing decided, no one remembered to notify the pilots. While the meeting continued later, in Producer Ben Schulberg's bungalow at Paramount, a smart stenographer found...
...furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. During his tantrums, there were six men in his interior running his 85 motors. Naturally no such monster would be limber enough to wrestle with a tyrannosaurus. Most of Kong's fights were photographed in miniature, some of them in "stop-motion"-using models of which the positions are minutely changed after each exposure, like the drawings in an animated cartoon...
...their best show value was the production last week of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page." It seemed to me as I sat through the performance that Francis Grover Cleveland gave a much more interesting interpretation of Hildy Johnson than Pat O'Brien did in the motion picture. While some of the other players were not up to the standard set by the cinema, the whole impression was one of sustained action with the starkly worded dialogue landing in the audience's lap with the jolt of a steam ram. Which recalls the fact that "The Front...
...this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever told 1. That the show must go on 2. Laugh, you clown, though your heart is breaking 3. I guess you got me, kid, but good luck and God bless you (coughs gently, dies)? It just seems that no motion picture director can ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that sort of embodies all three. A really good censor would have cut it out and left in a few more of Una Merkel's giggle wise-cracks...