Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motion to flay denied and lower house affirmed...
...phenomenal commotion occurred in Manhattan last week. The Amateur Astronomers Association prepared to show a five-reel motion picture graphically explaining the simpler features of the Einstein relativity theory, at the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's auditorium has 1,400 seats. Four thousand people tried to attend. In their crowding eagerness they jostled each other, bustled guards, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...
...Woman's Christian Temperance Union demanded that the Civic Opera Company remove from its Hansel production the inebriate father whose shortcomings are so clearly shown to be of evil consequence. The Woman's Executive Committee of the Civic Opera Company held a conclave, unanimously passed a motion to ignore the Temperance Union's protest. Said Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, president of the Company: "It is perfectly idiotic and shows the lack of knowledge on the part of members of the W. C. T. U. of opera. For even if we wished to, we could not change...
...promised to be a specially good Hogmanay for Paisley bairns, for the manager of the Glen Motion Picture Theatre had advertised a holiday matinee for children. In deference to Scotch ethics it was not a free matinee, but the admission was only a penny. Just after lunch 800 children clutching grimy pennies trooped to the Glen Theatre and sat on hard wooden benches to watch the unreeling of The Crowd, a slightly morbid U. S. cinema depicting the struggles of a New York clerk and the distressing death of his little daughter. The only grownups in the audience were...
With this conception of an interspacial sea of turbulent radiation, Mr. MacKaye was able to adduce 17 phenomena which the relativists describe with their inconstant dimensions, but which he believed could be measured with the classical constants of time, space and motion. Scientist MacKaye, 57, is brother to Percy Wallace MacKaye, dramatist, poet, lecturer, esthete, and Hazel MacKaye, producer of esthetic pageants. A half-brother is Arthur Loring MacKaye, retired newspaper editor (Hilo Daily Tribune, Hawaii). All four are versatile writers...