Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dust from the Catacombs; they are all doomed to go. The thing to supplement the pictures taken at the beach is now the family collection of "priceless and cherished symbols of American sport achievement," as the New York store sponsoring the idea calls them. Baseballs whose motion during a world series has been broadcast to five million listeners, the "77" jersey of Grange viewed from behind by spectator and player alike, the polo mallet of Devercux Milburn, the horseshoes that were first under the wire at Churchill Downs, the bats of Ruth and Gehrig, and Bill Tilden's racket. Harvard...
That Manuel Quezon, leader of the Philippine Senate, who spoke at the Union on Monday evening, has already put in motion a plan of insular government that will remove every trace of American supervision, inspection and direction, is the substance of information released by the War Department at Washington on Tuesday. This change of authority is going forward with the consent of President Coolidge, thus showing that the visit of Quezon and his companion, Sergio Osmena, representing the politicos of the islands, has already begun to bear more fruit than the promises of the last five presidents, cited...
...That the Government, by sponsoring: a) increases in salaries of Federal employes, b) a costly new school measure, and c) indemnification of German nationals for property lost abroad during the War, a measure involving 1,000,000,000 marks ($250,000,000), had set in motion a serious financial crisis that could be overcome only by immediate retrenchment...
...airplane propeller in rapid motion, electric bells, and a large number of xylophones, were employed by Antheil together with the regular orchestra scoring. The production was not well received...
...consideration of the philosophy, characterization, or even dramatic qualities of Victor Hugo being potently beyond the scope of the motion picture critic, the reviewer of "Les Miserables", which is now playing in Boston at the Colonial Theatre, must confine his observations to matters of production, acting, and dramatic effect...