Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Defeated (203-10-132) a motion to bring out of committee a $100,000.000 drainage and irrigation relief bill. ¶ Swore in Russell Elzey as a new member from Mississippi vice Percy Edwards Quin. deceased...
...Wilford Gyroplane which looks like an Autogiro but differs in that its rotor blades are controllable from the cockpit, and rigid save for a feathering motion...
...deeper. "British of long residence in India frankly admitted that they fear a big explosion sooner or later. Some even touched guardedly on the 'nightmare of massacre.' "Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon, with the approval of the British Government and British Parliament in London, has set in motion a gigantic police apparatus of drastic suppression of civil rights, free speech and freedom of assembly, such as the world has not seen in many years excepting in Russia and in Italy. . . . "Two years at hard labor are given for not leaving your home town when so ordered by police...
...imaginative hillbilly phrases as: "My home is way up the hollow where the valley snuggles in our little cabin," "I like to read what the goneby men have stored away in their lifetime," "a rage of anger," "the outdoingest feller," "the air from the falls keeps the flowers in motion all the time...
Rapidly approaching its close, this theatrical season has been notable for the number of motion picture people whom Broadway has attracted to its boards. Such a person is Miss Catherine Dale Owen, the raspy-voiced, jonquil-haired socialite charmer in Happy Landing. Usually associated with film work, Miss Owen made her first success in the entertainment business with her appearance on Broadway in The Whole Town's Talking. Afterward she went to Hollywood, played opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night, with Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song, with Levis Stone in Strictly Unconventional. She announces as the reason...