Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was. We enjoyed the bill so much we even neglected to feel impatient for Ted Lewis to come on. From the Aesop's Fable cartoon (which is our favorite form of movie) to the lady who achieved incredible slow-motion acrobatic tricks with her strong-arm partner, this bill kept us thoroughly entertained. Truly, the acrobatic lady, we think, is truly fortunate in having chosen a profession which keeps in trim her beautiful figure. The trick bicycle riders who opened the show broke the ground very nicely for King and Beatty, who did a Bullard and Cogan...
...years nearly 18 of which have been as a member of this great body (congress). My life has been an open book. This is the first time any aspersions have been cast upon my personal or official integrity." Following his conviction and sentence last week, Mr. Langley set in motion an effort for a new trial. Meanwhile he started for Washington at large under $5,000 bail. He had agreed not to take part in the proceedings of congress until his case was settled. Hardly had he arrived in the Capital, however, when he was taken seriously ill. His condition...
...heartily into operation and to do its level best to carry out the obligations imposed by it and then to trust to the sense of justice of the world to see that right is done in the end." House of Commons. The Conservative Party's motion (TIME, May 12) condemning the abolition of the McKenna duties was defeated by 317 to 252 votes. The debate was dull- except for the use of the prohibited word "lie" by Captain Terrel, Conservative, which brought him into conflict with the Speaker. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden also stirred the House...
...addition to the appointment of a new committee, the meeting resulted in the passage of a motion to divorce the Phi Beta Kappa Service Bureau from all connection with the Student Advisory System in the interest of both organizations...
...longer feel alarmed at the periodic revelations or radicalism in the United States. Under its auspices sixty national organize a "permanent All-American Conference for an aggressive fight to exterminate revolutionary and destructive radicalism and propaganda." Against a union of labor. Civil War veterans, brother Erik and Eagles, and motion picture producers even a bomb throwing anarchist would seem to have little chance of furthering his cause...