Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo...
Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...
...Langley, S. C., during a fervent campaign speech for the post of county superintendent, Louis Togneri absentmindedly strode right off the platform into the crowd, broke...
...Comora joined the only other outsider present, a New York Jour nal reporter named Joseph Denove. After the garrulous black "God" had been at it for two hours, and showed no sign of concluding although it was 3 a. m., even Harry Greene grew bored watching. They approached the platform, where Comora in legal fashion smartly tapped Father Divine on the chest with the summons. According to the process server, Father Divine shouted "Ugh!" or "a sort of a yell," and the assembly room became uproar...
...negative team of, Tudor Gardiner '40, Garfield H. Horn '40, Victor C. Vaughan '40 advocated America's adoption of collective security, organized on the same plan as the League of Nations. Stating that war is inevitable under a neutrality platform and that it is the United States' moral obligation to cooperate with European powers, the Yardlings contended that an international peace movement is the only hope for world peace...