Word: lectern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the Vagabond hears Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, broadcast, in his beautiful reading voice, a lecture on "Chaucer" from the lectern of Emerson...
...applause subsided, he took a firm grip on the sides of the lectern and began: "For the first time in our national history a President delivers his annual message to a new Congress within a fortnight of the expiration of his term of office. While there is no change in the Presidency this year, change will occur in future years...
...Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern and in a clear, ringing voice read the second Scripture Lesson. It was about Biblical David (Luke II, 1-20), and the Duke has always been called David in his own family. This performance was taken to be a retort pious to the Archbishops of England and a clincher...
...opened a course on "Critical Moments in the History of the U. S. from 1763 to 1921." On the Wilhelmstrasse Ambassador Dodd likes to corner Adolf Hitler, lecture him in fluent German on the democratic ideas of his friend Woodrow Wilson. On the Midway Professor Dodd stuck to his lectern, shushed questions about Germany by observing: "I am not entirely free to speak. . . . But if men knew their history, they certainly would not do a great many things they...
Secretary Ickes then took his turn at the lectern, drew his moral from the text of Lincoln's life. Said he: "It appears to have been Abraham Lincoln who scuttled the American Constitution, set up a dictatorship, threw the Supreme Court into the Potomac River and declared a moratorium on Congress. In fact, General George B. McClellan ran against him for President in 1864 on a 'Save-the-Constitution' platform...