Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition has grown up among the motion picture companies that the life of a newspaperman is one abounding in liquid refreshment and lacking in any excess of work. The reporter as typified by the talking screen is most cynical, always ready with a laughable quip, almost scholarly, inclined to be untidy in his dress, and only at home in a speakeasy. "Platinum Blonde" is a picture that conforms with this tradition, but there seems to be more attention to newspaper routine, and less drinking than usual...
...motion of nonconfidence was defeated 294 to 270. Hitler Deputies, livid with disgust, rushed from the chamber vowing (as they did last February) never to return...
...Midwestern Yale men their money's worth by gaining 37 yd. in scrimmage, running punts back 20 yd., intercepting two passes, dropkicking with precision. He let burly Tommy Taylor carry the ball on power plays but did most of Yale's passing with the clipped, short-arm motion and long follow-through taught Yale backs this year by Benny Friedman. One of Booth's passes sailed 35 yd., was caught by Herster Barres for a touchdown. Another pass and two long marches made the other three touchdowns that gave Yale the game, 27 to o. Between...
More Years. Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, his eyebrows bristling, flayed frantic oldsters: "The radios of young people are tuned to rhythmic motion. Those of old people get mainly static. There are too many 'drop-deads.' The 'drop-deads' occur in the city. They may die on the golf links, trying to show they are all right, but they really occur in the city. Farmers haven't the time to drop dead. We overdo the subject of exercise unless we have had the advantage of training early in life. Unless you have been brought up to work in early life...
Theoretically, many persons who were cinemaddicts before the advent of talking pictures have since lost interest in moving pictures. To recapture their attention, and increase cinema attendance all over the U. S., the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (Tsar Hays's organization) last week considered an unprecedented project: a $500,000 advertising campaign, recommending no particular pictures, all cinemas in general...