Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first act of the new Chancellor was prophesied to be a demand for dictatorship. If the Reichstag pass the motion, and it seemingly depended on the Socialist attitude, then the Cabinet has a tenuous chance of holding power until next Summer when a general election is due. "If," as the Vorwaerts put it, "there is a conflict between the Reichstag and the Marx Cabinet, the Reichstag is certain of dissolution." This can only mean a premature general election at a most inauspicious time...
...most modern revivals of Greek plays, the chorus has merely stood and chanted with perhaps slight swaying motion. In my chorus, however, we have developed rythmical dance movements, which I believe approximate very closely those used by the original Greek choruses. It took a long time to evolve these dance movements. My son had to spend several weeks in the British Museum studying the figures on the Grecian vases, before at last he was able to obtain a practical conception of the original dances...
Aimid the various competitions for peace prizes and other prizes of a supposedly benevolent nature, we are rather startled at subject of a prize competition just announced by the Cosmopolis Press of New York. This organization will give a thousand dollars for the best play, motion picture scenario or short story adaptable into a play or scenario "on the American jail as a force in the creation of criminals and the fostering of crime" The judges of the contest will include Ludwig Lewisohn,-author and an editor of the Nation; Minnie Madern Fiske, well known actress; Carl Van Doren, literary...
...five counts, including receiving bribes, the Governor was acquitted. Six counts were dismissed on motion of the prosecution. On the following eleven counts he was convicted (necessary vote for conviction two-thirds...
Marooned in the center of the field a group of photographers made a forlorn effort to take motion pictures of the cheer leaders as they slip and slide up and down the side lines...