Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seamstress mother recognized that her ungainly child was bright. She taught him first herself, took him to school at 6. He hated school because other children made fun of him, his body being in a constant state of writhing motion. His mother's remarkable persistence and encouragement, however, impelled him to continue his education against all odds, so that twitching, twisting and stammering he made his way through school...
Running against the wind as well as with it was Indiana's Henry Brocksmith, conscientious and stocky, who won the mile and two-mile runs. On the backstretch of the oval track the distance runners, breasting the wind, moved as though in slow motion, exhausted...
...Cathedral of the Motion Picture Art," as Manhattan's $10,000,000 Roxy Theatre used to advertise itself, went into receivership last week. Claimed as chief reason for the theatre's present poverty was the fact that about a year ago Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel resigned to head Rockefeller Center's entertainment department. But cinamen know that spectacular Roxy's was unable to make satisfactory profits even when all its 6,000 seats were filled and when Roxy's 118-piece symphony orchestra was a feature...
...merely for one man that the Vagabond is moved to unwonted sobriety: with the departure of Professor Webster a long line of the illustrious of history are going too. Returning every Spring to Harvard, he has put sense and motion into what were letters on a printed page, and the shadows of an age that is past, a time that is done have moved among us for a time with the life of contemporaries. Other and excellent lecturers there are at Harvard, but no one else who could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than...
...kept it prominently in the news all season and last week was no exception. The subscription sale opened for the shortened hwa season, went better than it has :or 25 years. Baritone Clarence White-lill's contract expired and as he announced lis departure, his intention to enter motion pictures, he took a parting thrust at Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "The Metropolitan is an Italian institution...