Word: lectern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience understood more than the gist of Sir Henry's discourse. He stood behind a lectern in the amphitheatre's pit, tall, domed and ruddy, looking like a vicar in a pulpit, and in a rich baritone spoke at length about the drugs which the body creates within itself. The hormones are among such drugs. Histamine and acetycholine are two subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their...
...many prints of ships had been carefully packed and dispatched to Washington in Army trucks, along with trunks of clothes, boxes of books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan...