Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing on a speaker's platform placed there for the occasion, Professor Copeland could be plainly heard to the farthest corner of the well-packed upper Common Room of the Union...
...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
English 10a, which may be taken either half year and does count for a degree, does provide some experience. In its effort to improve your delivery of addresses and to give you platform experience, it is quite successful...
Each man gives five major speeches on different subjects of about ten minutes each and several shorter ones. The instructor criticizes each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner," and the content and organization of his speeches. For the longer speeches the student has to prepare a detailed outline which cables him to organize his thoughts and lends continuity to his expression. Possibly some of the material and written examinations are a little superfinous but your speaking is greatly aided...
Merchant Reyburn got his start hawking on the platform of an Arkansas railroad junction. Once he sold eight boxes of strawberries to the late great John L. Sullivan. When he wanted to learn law, young Reyburn persuaded the University of Arkansas to hold its lectures at night. At 27 he took hold of a small private banking & real estate firm, expanding it into Little Rock's big Union Trust Co. Few years ago Mr. Reyburn resigned from Lord & Taylor's presidency to devote more time to his job as head of the parent company, $40,000,000 Associated...