Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally, conducts a senile romance with a female ward-leader named Oulihan (Maureen Delany) and finally wins the election for his son by appearing on a rostrum to denounce Murfree's rival for attempted kidnapping...
...before long, considered Sir Samuel's speech in the nature of an electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon that olive-skinned Auvergnat, dexterous Premier Pierre Laval, mounted the Assembly rostrum. Eight minutes later, when he stepped down, M. Laval drew his arm in most friendly fashion through that of Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompoe Aloisi and they strolled down the aisle together while editors were getting out such banner heads as: LAVAL PUTS FRANCE BEHIND LEAGUE; UNITY WITH BRITAIN ISOLATES...
...Justice, the U. S. delegates in Berlin would be the first to sympathize with rough & ready Nazi methods. They noted, for example, that U. S. citizens who committed no crime when they bought gold have since been made liable to punishment for holding on to their purchases. Taking the rostrum last week, German Minister of Justice Franz Giirtner announced that after Sept. 1 the punishment of "wrong acts" which were not crimes when they were commit ted will be a regular feature of German Justice...
...another 1,500 physiologists from the ends of the earth (280 from the U. S.) streamed into Leningrad's glass-roofed Uritsky Palace last week to constitute the 18th International Physiological Congress. The showpiece of Russian science, 85-year-old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, mounted the Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination...
Palmer on Rostrum...