Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something that "can happen to anybody." And Virginia's cure, once she turns the corner, seems suspiciously quick, easy and well-timed for a happy ending (in reality, she might very likely suffer a relapse). But with all its minor faults, The Snake Pit is an important motion picture. One of its notable achievements is that it establishes Olivia de Havilland not so much as a star, a dubious title she already held, but as an actress...
Charles R. Brynteson '50 yesterday rebelled against a Student Council motion directing him to draw up a long, detailed College-wide poll on dining hall food...
...that time, Brynteson opposed a long poll because, he explained yesterday, "it would accomplish nothing more than a short poll." However, a motion by Frederic D. Houghteling '50 was voted upon before he could explain his objections, Brynteson claimed...
...trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie was a big, quiet civil servant named Elmer...
...attempt to goad the Houses into studying College food, the Council restated its month-old motion on House food committees and directed House representatives on the Council to get the program started