Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore really incredible that the new motion-picture, "Joan of Arc," is such a very bad one. Considering the talent and the story, a worse job could not have been done. It is garish, turgid, and tedious. Its heavy-handedness and stupidity exemplifies much that is wrong with Hollywood. It is Joan of the Arc Lights...
...said severe winters have been moving west in the past three years. In 1947 England had a bitter winter; last year the northeastern United States was hit by a series of heavy snow storms; and this year parts of the west have been virtually paralyzed by blizzards. "The westward motion may be just a coincidence but it will be interesting to watch next year," Brooks said...
What Is a Patron? Still sleepy from his afternoon nap, Bevin droned through a long speech, Wearily mispronouncing words (he said "exubriance" for exuberance, "umanimity" for unanimity, "Lydia" for Lydda). When he reached the end without announcing recognition, the Labor benches groaned. The vote on a motion for adjournment was a vote for or against Bevin. Prime Minister Attlee, in a desperate effort to corral wavering Labor votes, made it a vote of confidence for or against the government. Even so, more than 50 Labor M.P.s abstained, and the vote, 283 to 193, was the narrowest majority the Labor government...
...made plain the strategy decided. His party was going to fight all the way; it planned to criticize every government measure as it had never done under former leader John Bracken. Drew lost no time in starting. On the first day, when Prime Minister St. Laurent introduced a motion, Drew found a technical flaw in it, forced St. Laurent to withdraw...
...Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance of his continued concern with the proletariat...