Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glass, raised it in his companion's direction, cried, "To your health!" Few minutes later Herbert Clark Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith marched out to a banquet table, sat down to continue their chat over the water tumblers. After dinner the Presidential rivals of 1928 mounted the same platform for the first time in their lives, united in urging contributions to the Salvation Army...
...Going through McComb, Miss. (pop. 10,000), Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants last year saw a crowd of 1,000 on the station platform. Delighted, he ordered an exhibition game for McComb this spring. Last week nearly half the population jammed their little baseball park to watch the Giants thrash the Cleveland Indians, 4-to-2. Next day, the Giants played the Indians in another exhibition game in Hattiesburg, Miss, where they were greeted by a brass band, a half holiday. After five balls had been pitched in the first inning, a downpour ended the game...
...type of speaker which such a plan demanded appeared on the platform at the stated time. The men who conducted Round Tables knew what was expected of them and did not spend the two hour interval wondering what statements would draw forth the greatest number of questions Sever 11 was equipped with a capacity audience but no persons had to be denied admission. Delegates from other Colleges arrived at Phillips Brooks House and knew what they were supposed to be doing before Saturday afternoon...
...room heavy with perspiration and heat and flowers and human emotion, they and the visitors from Lincoln wedged themselves to hear the list of those who had received degrees. Among those honored was a frail young girl from Virginia. "Willa Sibert Cather," called the voice from the platform...
...Horowitz stormed Berlin, then made a tour of Europe. After his debut in Manhattan in 1928, U. S. reporters tried hard to dramatize him but the pianist who could sparkle so on the concert platform proved to be an excessively shy person offstage. Money in his pocket led him to many a naive taste but none worth headlines. He took to wearing pink and red shirts, fussed about his tailoring. In London he bought a Rolls-Royce, which still impresses him greatly. Until lately he has taken little pains with his English...