Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This made it unnecessary for Chancellor Brüning to unlock his brief case. He put to vote a Communist and Socialist motion of noconfidence, defeated it by the smashing victory...
When Mr. Templeton asked for a long adjournment of the trial so he could study the case, the judge's turn to explode came: "The Attorney General of the U. S. is not running this court. Motion denied." Thereafter Mr. Templeton took a very minor part in the Jimerson defense. His presence in the state court was largely due to Kaw-blooded Vice President Charles Curtis, who asked the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to look after Red Lilac's rights. When asked to explain his interest in the case, Mr. Curtis declared it was "only casual...
...lectures are delivered in such a way as to make them most presentable to the general public. Motion pictures of an interesting nature are shown each time...
...first, it is true, the play went slowly, coolly. An uncertain audience at the Hollis had to get acclimated to these newcomers from Shakespeare-land, and the players felt this coolness, and took their own time about setting in motion the action of the play. Only at one other time, during the period of mutual misunderstandings, accusations, and challenges, and the final slow denouement of Act V, did the swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon...
...master plotter and at the same time he added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps...