Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorkers who crowded into the Greenwich Presbyterian Church one night last week had trouble believing their eyes and ears. On the platform 20 small children, several of them only two, the oldest seven, were giving a concert. They sat on tiny red chairs, played on violins so small that they looked like toys. But the instruments were real and so was the music that the New York Baby Orchestra made. Round Monte Collins was so young and unsteady that he kept falling off his chair. Little Marie ("Peewee") Jarecki, her hair frizzed and beribboned to suit the band...
Andre Fournet was declared "Blessed" in 1926. This spring in secret consistory the Pope and his Cardinals voted canonization. Last week Pius XI left the Vatican for the third time in this Holy Year, proceeded solemnly to St. Peter's. On one platform were kinsmen of St. Andrè, a nun who said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed...
...President Lowell's inauguration, 240 delegates were present from all important educational institutions in this country and abroad, with others from the federal and state governments. Forming in front of Phillips Brooks House the procession marched to the platform erected in front of University Hall, where former Governor J. D. Long '57, president of the Board of Overseers, handed over to President Lowell the College charter, seal, and keys, in accordance with the ceremony traditional in the inauguration of Harvard presidents for over 200 years...
...smoke and he seemed to be lifted in a cradle of other bearing him up and up until he thought he would burst. Far below him he saw his friends pouring Scotch into opaque glasses and sometimes just pouring Scotch. He saw himself standing alone on a great platform in a black gown and a mortar board. There was no one about. No crowds, no mothers, no girls, nothing...
...bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries. Out from the little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish to reveal gorgeous white silk tights, glittering with spangles. He was Louis ("King Louie") Bonette, junior member of Bonette Bros., daredevil aerialists. Daredevil Bonette perched himself...