Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees or powdering their noses...
...aboard!" shouted the conductor, and Mr. Ziegfeld disappeared into the Pullman. Then Jack Donahue came flitting out onto the platform...
...Count is not only a delightful buccaneer and a great sportsman, but he also has an incredible gift of relating his own stories. He acts them out on the platform. His strength is tremendous. One evening I saw him fear up 30 New York telephone directories, ripping them right in half. To illustrate his likability I can best fell you that Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was financially interested in a cargo that Luckner sent to the bottom. He was so taken in by the Count's congenial ways that he presented him with the golden Key to the city...
...graduate secretaries of the Union have endeavored to get emminent newspaper men to speak in the debate. Students who would like to take the platform should report to the graduate secretaries of the Union between 2 and 3 o'clock today or tomorrow...
...last of these suggestions is no novelty--instructors in every course in the College always sketch the type of examination which they propose to give. Of the other three this may be said: such a platform leaves no room for a test of the student's powers of coordination. In the individual lies his ability to write scattered threads; his success in so doing determines his success as a student. If his thinking is to be made mechanical he may as well give up all ambitions of becoming "educated...