Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing further of importance took place before the reading of the platform and nominating speeches three nights later, except the firing off of three big oratorical guns...
Second Gun was Permanent Chairman Bertrand Snell, white-haired and white-suited. With the polished self-complacency of old-school oratory he recited the now ironic promises of the Democratic platform of 1932. He spoke under noonday heat to delegates who had spent a night with glass in hand, laboring in committee, or even in the hospital, like John Hamilton, who had had an infected ear lanced. But applause overpowered him after such salvos as "Already the New Deal has cost us the progress and prosperity of a generation!" Better than a passing mark went to Chairman Snell from...
...conservative aristocrat, I am proud to stand on the same platform with a Dutch Socialist"-Lord Addington...
From Chicago the Dixieland went to Manhattan where earnings reached $1,500 per week, to London where that fee was more than doubled. At first, many found the Dixieland's music disconcerting. The players wore freak hats, jigged all over the platform, had a stuffed monkey set up in front of the drums with electric lights for eyes and a baton that waved automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting...
...general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed her precious beard...