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Word: motioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being a subscriber and a consistent reader of your much-admired "mag" I think it is within my province to criticize your remark on p. 23 of your Nov. 16 issue of TIME in regard to motion picture heads commenting on RKO-Radio combine in which you state and comment upon comic-strip remarks of Jewish motion picture heads such as "Vait till ve see vat Radio vill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...where you get authority that Jewish motion picture heads talk as you state, whether comically or straight? 1 can't imagine persons of the type of David O. Selznick or Jesse Lasky speaking like that: or is it possible that you take figures of speech of Jews for granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Perhaps the director of the motion picture felt obliged to change several of the sequences for the purpose of adaptation. Such alterations as appear, nevertheless, fail to add to the effectiveness of the plot and often obscure the action. Things seem a bit too hurried. There is not the careful focus and delicate shading in the tempo of the action which helped John Halliday win success on the stage...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/28/1931 | See Source »

...with more fertilizer & munitions. After the War the works were turned to dye-making, and in 1925 Dr. Bosch organized and became head of the Farbenindustrie. He says little, listens much, dresses carelessly, and peers through thick spectacles at the workings of the great machinery he has set in motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Ammonia & Gasoline | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...Vibratory Motion," Professor Black, Jefferson Physics Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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