Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share intelligently in the life of the community and that the steady growth of what might be called a youth movement, begun 25 years ago in one city (New York) has now spread its network over our entire country. Dues in all the 92 associated Leagues were, by motion at the national conference last spring at Nashville, Tenn., raised from 50c to $1 per girl to pay for the new club, which will be open for tea, bridge, reading and information from 10 to 5:30 daily except Saturdays and Sundays. 'We are planning,' said...
...dimensional Lineland, is introduced to Spaceland by a Sphere. With a great effort, he masters the conception of a Figure moving "up-ward, not northward" out of its plane. Ironically, he cannot persuade the Sphere that perhaps there are yet other dimensions, to be entered by solids by some motion unfamiliar to them...
...subtlety, no Arlenesque sophistication. The players all say what they mean, and they inflect their voices in such a manner that there can be no possible doubt about the words meaning just what they do in the dictionary. And the acting is much of the same variety. Every motion that is made says to the audience "Let me explain" and there is never a good line spoken but what the whole cast violently signals to the audience "Get ready to laugh. One-two-threee...
...items of today's news reveal athletic progress in its uncertain motion. Neither item begins or concludes an Neither item begins or concludes an event, Both are commended to the close and interested attention of the student public...
Sued for Divorce. By Prince Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; Princess Sophie Charlotte, 47, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He alleged that "her continual efforts to secure employment in the motion picture industry have become a source of humiliation to the House of Hohenzollern." She promptly filed a counter suit accusing him of degeneracy. It was recalled that she married him in 1906, virtually at the command of the Kaiser, who wished to bring the vast wealth of the Oldenburgs within the Hohenzollern family. Should the divorce be granted she is expected to marry...