Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative Leader Meighen tensed himself to introduce a motion of "Want of Confidence" against the Government as soon as the House should be declared in session. Unwary, he allowed his attention to be distracted at the critical instant. Liberal House Leader Ernest La Pointe got ahead of him with a motion of "Confidence." The House leaped to its feet, and many a wild word flew...
...Cummings, best known perhaps for his lack of capitals, orthodox punctuation, and spacing, has carried the standard of revolt much further than did Amy Lowell and her disciples a half-generation ago. In return he has achieved a rapidity of motion and a trick of brief description interspersed with flashes of vivid realism, which creates a more startling illusion than would have been possible within the bounds of the old forms. This technique has not been confined to poetry, for an impressionism which resembles it strikingly, constitutes the chief charm of the works of such writers as Sherwood Anderson...
Colonial--"Stella Dallas", a motion picture...
Majestic--"The Big Parade", a motion picture by Laurence Stellings, directed by King Vidor on January...
...There is a crying need for college men to enter moving pictures," said Samuel Goldwyn, motion picture producer of note, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternon...