Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armored car at a moment's notice, get rid of a half dozen tired neckties by mailing them to an outfit that sends you (for $1) six different ones in return, be taken care of at midnight at the "Dawn Patrol Beauty Salon," or rent a psychoanalytical motion picture to help you understand yourself...
Some three weeks ago a well-heeled expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Cornell University and the Arctic Institute of North America and equipped with airplanes, motion picture cameras and other up-to-date gadgets, made a serious attack on the curlew's domestic privacy. Last week the exciting news was flashed to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon...
Howard Hughes, one of the targets of the old War Investigating Committee. "I hereby offer you a job as a motion picture actor," wrote Producer Hughes, new boss of RKO, "at a salary of $300 a week. This is twice the usual starting salary, but you are no amateur...
Blowup. The current issue of Aviation Week contains what it claims is a picture of the speedy Russian plane itself (see cut). The drawing was made from a blown-up motion picture film smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain. The original photographs, the magazine says, were taken with a telescopic lens while the plane was being tested, and "arrived in this country by a circuitous process...
Died. Louis Lumière, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France...