Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water wheel. Facing the blades of this water wheel is a similar set of blades on the transmission shaft. The two sets of blades are enclosed in a sealed compartment filled with light oil. As the flywheel gathers speed, the blades attached to it set the oil in motion, and the moving oil drives the opposite set of blades. These in turn rotate the transmission gears and, through them, the drive shaft and the wheels. A fluid drive automobile can be braked to a stop in high without killing the motor. It can be started in high without bucking...
...almost silly," Odets went on, "to have to be defending the theme of love for a play. Popular songs and motion pictures are occupied with practically nothing else. But in a serious play ... it apparently strikes some as not being enough; it doesn't 'count.' It isn't 'important.' . . . The roots of love and the meaning of it in the present world need surely to be comprehended as much as the effect of a strike on its activists. (In fact, I am hoping to prove in a future play, The Silent Partner, that love...
...told him his face was familiar, out "now don't tell me, let me guess." Cantor got a little weary of this and remarked that he was the man with five daughters. "Oh, I know, Mr. Dionne," the stranger said quickly. "No," said Cantor, "Eddie Cantor--Dionne in slow motion...
...inside the windows an artificial snow storm of unbleached corn flakes swirled in a frosty void. Display Director O'Clare thought that one up, and L. & T.'s President Walter Hoving defended it against the conservative protest of the Fifth Avenue Association which has a rule against "motion or sound...
Last week motion and sound definitely entered the displays of Fifth Avenue stores below 42nd Street. At Altman's big toys revolved in the windows. In each window at Franklin Simon's a cute white angel stood at a cute white organ under changing colored lights while organ music breathed from lofty loudspeakers. Lord & Taylor had windows full of its famed big, swinging golden bells with chime accompaniment, the same as last Christmas-the first "repeat" in recent Fifth Avenue history...