Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20th Century-Fox lot in Hollywood one day last week half-a-dozen men were grouped in and about a queer-looking contraption-a sort of double-decked platform in the air, held together by invisible piano wires. The whole thing was hung by cables from enormous pulleys on the stage ceiling. The lower deck, besides having springs and pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this...
...crew of '"grips" (propertymen). Two were on the upper deck, one on the lower. Winch Operator Philo Goodfriend started his electric winch, slowly raised the magic carpet into the air-Ptt! one of the supporting cables snapped. Before there was even time for a warning shout the heavy platform had bumped 20 ft. to the ground, fatally crushing Winch Operator Goodfriend, hurting Propertyman Harry Harsha so badly he died in hospital a few hours later...
...first political party in the U. S in its Declaration adopted as part of its platform the demand for 'life, liberty, am the pursuit of happiness.' The Fathers were intellectually honest. They did not promise happiness. They only asserted that for pursuers of happiness freedom would be safeguarded...
Last week they grew excited over a dozen cases of apricots standing innocently on the railway platform at Aleppo. Ruthlessly the gendarmes tore the cases apart and, like hens who had just done their duty on the nest, gave a chorus of self-satisfied ejaculations as they discovered not fruit, but cartridges and arms. The crates were consigned to rebellious Moslem Kurd tribesmen in northeastern Syria who have been revolting for weeks against French rule, who only day before had swooped down from the back country to pillage Christian homes and shops in Amouda near the Turkish frontier...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy calls its hostesses "Zephyrettes." They wear pearl-grey uniforms, overseas caps, flowers in buttonholes. Before the train starts they greet passengers on the platform, show them to their locations, go through the train with the conductor to see that everyone is comfortable. The Burlington once had 1,500 applications (some from Mexico and Canada) for twelve jobs. A Burlington requirement, in addition to amiability and pleasing appearance, is "self-confidence...