Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...qualitative disarmament" Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, who introduced that part of the motion, appeared to mean the limitation or reduction of weapons having an "offensive quality" (such as poison gas or submarines). Without cracking a smile, the Japanese Delegate mildly observed that "too much qualitative disarmament might easily lead to too much quantitative disarmament...
...signs of definite, if gradual, return of confidence. Pointing to the efforts of the R. F. C. and anti-hoarding campaign, Secretary Mills added, ". . . While it seems almost cruel to urge patience ... yet I cannot help but feel we should give the forces which have been set in motion an opportunity to exert themselves before yielding to doubt as to whether we are on the right path." Pressmen applauded politely...
State's Attorney (RKO) shows John Barrymore himself making an address to a jury which is surely as impassioned as the one (in A Free Soul) which last year got his brother Lionel a prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is a criminal lawyer named Tom Corrigan, inclined to making cynical observations on the discrepancies between justice and the law. One evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William...
...Smoker will take place at 7.45 o'clock after the dinner is over and the tables have been rearranged. The feature of the evening will be a talk by Captain Irving Johnson of new Bedforde on "Around the Horn on a Square Rigger." His talk will be accompanied by motion pictures taken by the speaker while he was lashed to the mast of his ship during a storm...
...done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore a blond wig. doubled for Marion Davies), once in Tarzan of the Apes (doubling for Johnny Weissmuller) and in a slow-motion short, Swing High, soon to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...