Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate on this high-handed motion, the Left, led by egg-headed Socialist Indalecio Prieto, solidly demanded the President's resignation, insisting that the dissolution that had led to its accession to power had been "unnecessary." Mournfully replied the old monarchist, Count de Romanones, "To dismiss even a cloakroom attendant would require eight days of preparation while the President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could...
...regular majority of 250, was beaten, 156-to-148. Literally, this meant that the Government must, over its own policy, proceed to give women civil servants equal pay. Since the House was then sitting in committee, His Majesty's Government hastily won (149-to-134) a motion that the Speaker be returned to his chair. It could not, however, prevent Labor's Major Attlee from stampeding through a motion to adjourn a House divided between hilarious laughter and solemn indignation...
...love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being followed by pixies), but Jean Arthur breaks up the proceedings at the last moment with love and kisses and saves...
...quorum shall consist of a majority of the members of the Council. A vote of the Council shall be declared if two thirds of those voting favor the project. If there is less than a majority of those in favor of the motion, the motion is laid on the table. If there is a favorable majority which does not reach the requisite two thirds, a week shall elapse, at the end of which time a majority vote shall decide...
Original moves in any story formula as tightly established as the Grand-Hotel-in-Motion must necessarily consist of variations so stylized that, like the moves in chess, they are sensational chiefly to the initiated. One such device is having the off-duty pilot begin a flirtation with the heiress which he culminates grandly only after he has assumed his official status as Head Pilot...