Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago had a war. It was a commercial war, waged with Tommy guns, grenades, sawed-off shotguns, pistols, and speeding automobiles. Its soldiers wore a unique uniform-black velvet-collared topcoat and pearl-grey hat. It was a war which enriched the language, inspired a dozen books, plays and motion pictures, and damned the Volstead...
...prosecution at Tokyo's International Military Tribunal for the Far East rested its case last week. The defense went through the formality of a motion for dismissal, then buckled down to the task of defending the 26 Japanese in the dock (including. ex-Prime Minister Tojo and ex-Foreign Minister Shigemitsu). The charges: "Crimes against peace, murder, conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity...
Before he took off again for Washington he had time for a long visit with his old friend and wartime military secretary, Frank McCarthy, now assistant to Board Chairman Byron Price of the Motion Picture Association of America...
Nobody really knows much about seasickness, except the experts, who wish they didn't. Doctors know little about its cause (they prefer to call it "motion sickness," since car, air, and seasickness are the same thing). They think it may result from nerve impulses touched off by the sloshing about of fluid in the inner ear's semicircular canals. At least four people in ten are susceptible to motion sickness, some so readily that watching a tennis ball in play, spinning on a stool, or even hearing a sea voyage mentioned turns their stomachs. Most people, after...
...with assurance, but otherwise his style is labored and often descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier, and T. S. Eliot...