Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion to instal baths in houses being converted into apartments for laborers was defeated. Said Colonel Prettyman, Conservative for Chelmsford: "Why, our forefathers had only two baths in their lifetime?one when they were born and the other when they died?and they took neither of them voluntarily." The New York Herald says: "It's all a myth about the Englishman and his inevitable bath...
...Argentine Republic withdrew from the League in 1920 after her motion to admit all sovereign nations to membership in the League was defeated...
Numerous Authors They Assemble at a Cinema Congress−and Talk At the International Congress of Motion Picture Arts (in Manhattan) one saw numerous authors, some serious, some gay. Here was Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, a serious stately lady, clad in gray and black. I was tempted to ask her where she obtained her information on Yale displayed in The Courage of the Commonplace; but didn't quite dare. W. B. Maxwell, whose The Day's Journey is a really fine recent English novel, was the British delegate. He is tall, dignified, with a much lined face that...
MERTON OP THE MOVIES-Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash, tenderfoot and a sourdough of Hollywood, soften many a dour face with a satire on "the art of motion pictures...
Next came an illustrated lecture by Colonel B. K. Eustace, noted British sportsman, who, on November 21, described his own experiences in the jungle with the aid of several reels of motion picture film. A week later Mr. B. L. Brasol, former municipal attorney of Petrograd, portrayed the dangers toward which the Bolshevists are heading and pointed out the world disaster which their organization is now seeking to bring about...