Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he first took the platform, Cantor was besieged by photographers. In the front row was Ace Candid Man Harold Wolff. Cantor obligingly stepped toward him and turned profile. "My best side," he explained...
...spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...
...then, there he was on the platform, that kindly smile, a twinkle in his eyes. The Vagabond thought of that wise saying--it's credited to Mrs. Hocking--that when Mr. Frost lectures, he thinks out loud, and his thoughts are worth listening to. He was thinking out loud now, ideas on college, "the four years of shelter from a hard world, the four years of beautiful leisure." The Vagabond remembered that it had been Mr. Frost who had told him that of all the things in college, only two were worthwhile for a person of artistic leanings, "sports...
Most immediate effect of this would have been to raise the prices of meat, butter and milk which Englishmen were buying in large duty-free quantities from nearby European nations. "E. F. T." has never been tremendously popular except among English farmers and dairymen, but that was the platform on which Unionist (Conservative) Candidate Aitken won his seat and kept it for six years. It has also served as the keystone of his personality and papers ever since...
...stump with an alarm bell which rang every minute to indicate that $5,000 worth of foreign foods had gone into British mouths, he ranted through the general elections of 1931 with such good effect that Stanley Baldwin took over part of E. F. T. in the Conservative Party platform...