Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sermon given at many U. S. metropoles, Dr. Straton describes the evils Df dancing, which he regards as worse than "hugging on the sofa." Thus : "In the case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity ! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily con tact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
Meanwhile the body of the ship, containing 23 men, had plunged from the crash 1,000 feet higher into the air, and then, with a sickening, sliding motion it had started to earth while gas-tanks, oil-cans, girders crashed about. It landed near a grove with 22 survivors. At some point in the maelstrom, Lieut. Sheppard was thrown from the hulk. His body was found a mile from the main wreckage, a bit of guy-rope in one hand, a bit of rigging in the other...
Siegfried. It has taken the "Made in Germany" sign seven years to come back and its sway is still restricted. In motion pictures it becomes with this production an established mark of excellence. Siegfried is certainly one of the best pictures ever shown...
Pictures, both motion and still, showed the Maude 15 or 20 feet out of water, hanging on ice-hummocks listing 40 after mighty movements of the pack. Stoutly girded, round-bottomed as a watermelon, armored with wooden walls a yard thick, the Maude had slid or crashed back to the water again without mishap every time, though on some occasions blasting powder was required for the relaunching...
...case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily contact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...