Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of good by diverting creative energy into truly useful channels. If inventors will direct their resourcefulness toward carrying out the sane suggestions in "What's Wanted", they will not only spare themselves much profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have to catalogue them and search the archives for previous patents. Wisdom in the choice of a subject is certainly as important...
...girl enlisting a park policeman for the evening. Accordingly Goldwyn's eight reel production of Vanity Fair is rather gruesome. One can only hope that Thackeray is sufficiently diverted by his celestial activities to omit a mundane interlude for inspection of the ruin of his novel in the motion picture galleries...
...claim is made that the Eastman Company, by its grip on distributors of motion picture film, compelled the delaying of deliveries to Eastman's competitors, as well as discriminate against its competitors' customers in the granting of credits...
...parts. His voice is fine, big, fresh and young. He sings with skill and excellent understanding and is really a masterful actor, and, indeed, has a reputation in Germany as a nonsinging and even nonspeaking actor. He has had much experience and success as a player for the motion pictures. He is, too, an athlete, a tremendously strong fellow, one of the best amateur wrestlers in Germany and a boxer who, if he may be a little bit slow and cumbersome for American boxing ideals, is quite a paladin with the fists in Central Europe...
...this country--lacrosse. The players run far and wide--especially far and the sticks, which developed from Indian war-clubs, are still used for this primitive purpose. The organization in depth, instead of stabilizing the conflict as it does in ordinary warfare, merely causes a sort of harmonic motion up and down the field. This business goes on either until the war-clubs have accomplished their work, which happens very rarely, since American teams are provided with plenty of substitutes--or until the time allowed for complete exhaustion has elapsed. There is also a method of scoring, which does...