Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Platitudinous, innocuous as may be most commencement speeches Vice President Dawes observed not the bromidic tradition. Mounting a platform fringed with potted plants, he put his manuscript on a pedestal before him, gripped the pedestal with both hands, read. Soon those members of his audience who may have been acquainted with developments concerning the appointment of U. S. delegates to the Geneva Conference, sat straight up, leaned forward or otherwise shifted their persons to positions indicating close attention...
Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised the conference...
...Majesty King Ferdinand, long invalid and often sick to the point of death, made a dramatic gesture on the station platform at Bucharest, as he entrained to pass a period of recuperation, last week, at his hunting castle at Scrobesti...
...Ismet's train reached the end of the new line last week, he descended to the platform, stern and imposing, to accept without moving a muscle of his face the homage of some thousands of rural townsmen. They, well-meaning, slaughtered many sheep, and one gangling camel in honor of the new railway and Ismet Pasha. To make the celebration more costly, bright shawls and valuable rugs were dipped in blood from the slaughtered animals, then burned...
Passengers boarding the Century always tread plush. But next week the red platform carpets will be new, as red and plush as money can buy. Brass polish will be copiously consumed this week on observation-car railings, and, no doubt, even upon the service-shiny buttons of John Joseph Kennedy...