Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iraq Parliament last week received an ironic motion for the establishment of an Arab national home-in California...
...success rests equally on personality. He is the little man who is a little mad; the fellow who, leering behind painted specs or grr-r-ring like a wolf, seems ready to leap at a woman or over a wall. Meanwhile, he remains in frantic, if aimless motion. There are more explosive comics (Durante, for one) than Bobby Clark; but none in whom so much seems just about to explode...
...your charges against "a generation brought up on comic books, flabby popular music," and motion pictures, it seems to me that that so-called unthinking generation just finished one of the toughest jobs in history, and don't tell me it doesn't take brains to fight...
...apparently a well-established rule that the quality which makes plays successful on Broadway is largely lost when those plays are transferred to the medium of motion pictures. Columbia's adaptation of "Snafu" is no exception to the rule, though it is a more faithful duplication of the original than is usually the case...
Ryder made a last desperate snatch at life by falling in love with Lady Julia; lawyers coldly set in motion the legal wheels of divorce that would enable them to marry. But Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came...