Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons this week the Labor Party made the Glasse indiscretion the spearhead of their drive for a motion of censure against the Prime Minister, demanding a British General Election...
...Liberty in Europe is being murdered, and the Prime Minister is the undertaker -waiting to bury the corpse!" cried Orator Arthur Greenwood, presenting Labor's motion. "Mussolini has been tricked over Austria, yet in Mussolini's hour of weakness the British Government has gone to his rescue! . . . The British Government is permitting the Spanish Loyalists to be butchered to make a Roman holiday...
...yellow fog. When Actor Laurence Olivier discovers a sprightly message daubed on his hotel-room mirror, the audience can see at a glance that it was written with Actress Oberon's lipstick. In the country, horses, dogs and gentry chasing across light-bathed landscapes are hunting prints in motion. As scientifically suspect as the theory that the waters of the Liffey make the best stout is the notion that British water develops the best in Technicolor. But whatever the natural aids, Producer Korda's Technicolor is the best...
Cinema Comedian Eddie Cantor told Washington's Hadassah chapter that Nazis had threatened him by telephone because of his Jewish activities. Said he: "Even in Hollywood where the motion picture industry is run by Jews, I have a bodyguard...
...dedication. Dressed in dark silk shirt, riding breeches and boots, Emperor Gable was master of ceremonies, read a speech in which the instruction "chuckle" was written at appropriate spots. Said he: "I find myself shrinking into microscopic tininess beside the influence and the commerce we here set in motion." Next day an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission heard the application of Gilbert Gable's Gold Coast Railroad for a permit to build a 90-mile spur across the mountains into Port Orford from Leland on the Southern Pacific line 50 miles inland. Soon the Gold Coast...