Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes it possible for Takla to evade both the unpleasant death being prepared for her in the lama monastery and the imminent misconduct of her kidnapper. A glad conclusion becomes, thus, inevitable and the picture stops. Famed Gilda Gray, whose name has always been a synonym for that improper motion of the body, the shimmy, is to be seen whirling about in the innocuous curves of the devil dance. While she is not dancing, she makes no effort to wriggle out of her responsibilities. Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary snatch...
...done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster. Despite waste motion and a high degree of improbability, those who like to shiver at make-believe gunmen will be able to do so. Conrad Nagel, playing the hero, wears without embarrassment the name of "Handsome...
Balk is current nomenclature of two sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...
...House of Lords last week. So important loomed this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...motion for approval was put by First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment...