Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficiently literate to have edited for several years the Soviet Army's propaganda magazine Red Star. Kicked out of the Ministry of Education, last week, to make room for General Bubnov, was high-strung, sensitive, super-cultured Anatole Lunacharsky. He encouraged esthetic dancing, once directed an educational motion picture in which his wife was instructively seduced. A good many unesthetic people predict that Bubnov will not do worse...
...will start by discussion for a third per cent ad valorem duty on imported birdseed. Taking the affirmative side will be Tom Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill...
...dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those who make American motion pictures, the applause of the children is swiftest and most enthusiastic...
...Motion Pictures help children remember their lessons, help stupid ones get as good marks as those who ignore pictures. ?Yale's Daniel Chauncy Knowlton and J. W. Tilton...
...film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit-living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells...