Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this profoundly alarming state of affairs His Lordship cited "three causes": first the winning by an Eastern people of the Russo-Japanese war; second the sending of black troops against white in the World War; and third the influence on the Indian mind of motion pictures, "particularly with reference to the appearance and activities of white women upon the screen": i. e. an Indian instinctively scorns a man who does not show mastery of his wife, something seldom shown in movies...
When, in 1922, Will H. Hays was made president of a representative organization which called itself Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., the religious bodies which had previously been alarmed by the pernicious moral influences exerted by the cinema industry were vastly relieved. To them, it seemed that the scabrous ideals of the ignorant money grubbers who were producing moving pictures could be effectively counteracted by the efforts of an able, high-minded Presbyterian elder and ex-Postmaster General...
Well satisfied were most U. S. citizens. Well satisfied was President Herbert Clark Hoover, credited with personally setting in motion the Government's war against organized crime. Well satisfied was U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson, bushy spearhead of the Chicago drive. Not so well satisfied was Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. In Washington he lamented: "Never before have we seen Uncle Sam with one hand trying to lock up a man for his felonies and with the other hand trying to collect a good income...
...lifting power increases when the dirigible comes to rest because the absence of a cooling flow of wind (from the ship's motion) allows the gas to expand...
...lucky brother who, severely wounded, goes back to England and the girl. Chances might have been a better cinema if fewer shots of wheels, particularly wheels with balloon tires, had been shown in those stenographic flashes which are as yet the only means the talkies have discovered to indicate motion from one place to another. Its somewhat sentimental story is by no means a novelty but the dialog is terse and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. has an English accent which, if he uses it at home, must make his father feel like a pants-presser...