Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capetown last week, bearded Boers and other members of the South African Party struggled through a party convention, listened to innumerable speeches in Cape Dutch and English, introduced innumerable resolutions. One motion, introduced by the followers of a Col. D. Reitz, startled the floor and set international cables buzzing. Moved the Reitzers...
...restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost his job at the advent of the talkies...
Created in the image of The New Yorker, five years ago The Chicagoan first appeared, drawing its inspiration from the East, its pocket money from the West. Publisher was Martin Quigley, a hardworking, red-headed newspaper man who had made enough money out of cinema trade magazines (Motion Picture Almanac, Herald and Daily, Better Theatres, Hollywood Herald) to take up polo. First issues reminded readers not so much of The New Yorker as of an imitation of a college funnypaper imitating The New Yorker. But the magazine improved with age, reported the local drama, sport, social goings-on with...
...Bloom: The surrender scene was most dignified, most pleasant, most courteous in every respect. To run a pageant without it would be like having a motion picture without an ending...
...office. Selznick had a sign made which said "General Manager" and put it on the desk. When, some months later, he got a memorandum from Laemmle which said "accepting your resignation" he had acquired a knowledge of the tricks of the trade which enabled him to remark that the motion picture business "takes less brains than anything else in the world...