Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three British statesmen were terrestrially in motion, last week, in the furtherance of their several missions...
Artist Sloan's first notable paintings were those which he made of Manhattan or Philadelphia streets and houses, engrossing not alone because they are energetic paintings full of motion and the suggestion of sound, but also because the scenes which they depict are now vanished. In these paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester...
...lecture has been well received, the applause would speak well for any professional lecturer who charges admission. I was in a class the other day in which a visiting German professor was lecturing. He ran over the hour by 12 minutes, yet no one left the room, made any motion to, or hardly realized the hour...
...Diederich was born in Hungary in 1884. His sculpture and iron work have a modernistic tone, and the long, slim lines of his figures convey admirably the idea of swift motion inherent in most of his works. His favorite subjects are taken from out-of-doors life especially of polo and hunting scenes, in which his speeding figures seem fairly to fly over the ground...
...Flier Clarence Duncan Chamberlin is not the cinema type, as reported, Miss Ruth Elder apparently is. The New York-to-Atlantic Ocean flier was besought by Florenz Ziegfeld last week to play the part of the American girl in his motion picture to glorify that young lady...