Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Old New York. With a pounding of drums and shrill cries of the ballyhoo herald sounding more loudly than ever when motion picture was heralded before, this latest product from the laboratories of William Randolph Hearst arrived in New York. A theatre was purchased and redecorated at an expense of hundreds of thousands. A huge list of names was amassed for the opening night?social celebrities, famous figures of the stage, sporting men and women, beauties, politicians. Victor Herbert conducted the orchestra...
Married. James Kirkwood, 40, actor, recently divorced by his second wife, Mrs. Gertrude Kirkwood, to Miss Augusta Appel, 18, motion picture actress (screen name: "Lila Lee"), formerly known in vaudeville as "Cuddles Edwards," at Los Angeles. Mr. Kirkwood played the title role in The Fool...
...Efficiency, economy, honor - these three. But the greatest of these is honor," said Sir George Luna to the 20th conference of the Association of Education Committees in London, referring to a motion to reduce teachers' salaries. It was true, he said, that had the scales been drawn up this year instead of in 1920 they would have been lower. But he felt obliged to point out that the agreement adopted in 1920 would not terminate until 1925. Which brought him to the matter of honor...
...motion introduced in the Legislative Assembly at Calcutta by Sir Deva Prasad Sarvadhikary, advocating withdrawal by India from the League of Nations, was withdrawn after several members had pointed out the good work that the League was doing in Japan, China, Persia...
...Balkan country club where royalty sets the balls in motion...