Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motion Picture Herald's stars are picked by exhibitors all over the U. S. who are asked to send in the names of the ten players whose pictures drew most money to their theatres. On this year's lists appeared a total of 207 names...
...unanimous decision last night the Student Council voted to investigate and report on the "athletic situation at Harvard." A motion was introduced after much discussion which read as follows...
...York last week the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures re-leased its annual lists of the best pictures of the year. Picked as the best made anywhere in the world was La Kermesse Héroïque (TIME, Oct. 5), winner of the Grand Prix du Cinema Français, produced in France by Tobis, directed by Jacques Feyder, released in the U. S. last autumn. Ihe Board of Review's list of the ten best pictures made in Hollywood...
Last month when the motion of a Sinclair triumph was pervading the final hearings on the plan, Harry Sinclair made one of his stage gestures. In court rose his attorney, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, to say that since some of the creditors appeared to think that Mr. Sinclair wanted to dominate the new company, Mr. Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President...
...will youse guys cut that row? Waddaye think dis is?" then with a reverent motion towards Kirkland, "Youse pro'bly didn't know dat some of de greatest brains in dis country was woikin in dese very walls." And in almost ethereal silence the garbage crew, much chastened, continued to ply their tasks with the thought of some of the greatest minds in the world right at work, not twenty feet away, still buzzing in their heads...