Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just witnessed a very amazing spectacle on the floor of the House of Representatives. For the first time in my 25 years as a member I have seen a majority leader, with a majority of 4-to-1, rise to appeal to his members to sign a petition to discharge his own Rules Committee from consideration of his legislation. That is definite proof of the statement I have often made: that the Democrats cannot efficiently run the House of Representatives...
Reported the London Dally Mail next morning, "The difficulty of including mimics [in the program of a Command Performance], which existed during the lifetime of King George V., did not arise last night. The present King and Queen have seen sufficient films and plays to appreciate fully, as they obviously did, Miss Florence Desmond's keenly-detailed and effective burlesques of Dietrich, Garbo, Dorothy Dickson-and especially good, Jessie Matthews...
...pulse, not unlike that of a beating heart. With inadequate motion-picture equipment at Philadelphia, he was not able to see this living rhythm until he went to studv at the Pasteur Institute in France where films had been made and slowed down 100 times. The Physarum pulse was seen to have a period of about 45 seconds. Dr. Seifriz rejects the older theories attributing protoplasmic movement to surface tension, electric potentials, etc. "I ask the reader," he wrote recently in Science, "merely to admit that protoplasm is alive, for in so doing, he tacitly grants that it exhibits irritability...
...tests Pilot William K. ("Ken") Ebel taxied the 63,000-lb. plane like a speed boat, sprinting, curving, cutting corners through Chesapeake Bay until spectators said they had never seen an airplane so roughly handled. Then for 17 minutes he flew through the air about 100 ft. above the water. In continuous two-way radio conversation with Designer Glenn Luther Martin-who under a company agreement may not fly-Pilot Ebel reported M.O.T.'s performance. "Stable as a brick," grinned Designer Martin...
...Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt and closed French Casino, where Magda de Fontages was to cavort, sailed on the Normandie, weeping bitterly. Said one: "We gave New York some of the best nudes they've ever seen here...