Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father on the platform that Baton Rouge townsfolk, who flocked to his pep meetings, enjoyed pretending that the late, egregious Senator was back again...
...life became a matter of missed trains, hurried meals, bad hotels. Sometimes Chautauqua people went a little batty under the strain of missing trains; one lecturer rushed on the platform, spent the time for his lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along...
Adolf Hitler, who combines in his single person the roles of Chancellor (Premier) and Reichsführer or Realmleader (a modernized euphemism for King), was met on the station platform in Rome last week by Il Re Vittorio Emanuele and II Duce Benito Mussolini. Der Fuhrer gave the Nazi salute, II Re the military salute and II Duce the Fascist salute (see p. 23). Afterward the German shook hands with his Italian hosts, and then Premier Mussolini effaced himself, slipping out and driving off in a small car to his office...
...keyboard and gravely played a Loesch-horn Etude. The audience in Manhattan's Town Hall gave her a big hand. Before the last clap had died out she had already launched a vigorous performance of a Moskowsky Pantomime. Subsequent applause was deafening. Pianist Nina walked to the platform exit, gave her little silk dress a hasty jerk and hurried out. Applause continued. Pianist Nina came back, walked a few inches further toward the centre of the platform, put her right foot back and gave another jerk to her dress, walked out with a sober air of finality. Next soloist...
More than 100 people were gathered around the crimson-draped platform as President Conant rose to speak in the light rain that was still falling. Characterizing the new Graduate School as "Harvard's response to the general challenge of the times, he pointed out that it was made possible only through the generosity of "a loyal and devoted son of Harvard...