Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August, Miner Lewis dominated the scene. Before a packed auditorium a Deputy NRAdministrator sang out: "We will now hear from the president of the United Mine Workers of America." Lewis, John L. Everyone in the hall knew the squat, bullnecked, heavy-pawed figure that swaggered out to the rostrum. There was a glint of arrogance in his grey eyes. He jutted his heavy jaw. Dramatically he introduced himself in the idiom of the true labor leader: "The name is Lewis-John L." When the titters had died away Lewis, John L. began to read in a surprisingly soft, resonant voice...
Chancellor Dollfuss approached the British and French Legations, asked them to withdraw the note. They refused. Promptly he summoned Parliament to extraordinary session, invited the foreign Press, read the entire secret ultimatum, and slapped it down on the rostrum in front of him with the statement that Austria, a sovereign nation, does not answer such notes at all. Four months later Engelbert Dollfuss was in Britain, a darling of the British Press & public during the World Economic Conference. But in the meantime the world had awakened to the folly and menace of Hitlerism. Today no one can pluck the capercailzie...
...however, presumptuous to suppose that a puff of enthusiasm from the rostrum would be enough to hold a student's interest. It will only be when both the teacher and the taught recognize the newness of each topic to the student that an academic millennium will be attained. By that time, both may be sliding together...
...visited the Fair if they were so inclined, found time for some golf. Then, more soberly and attentively than usual, they attended their speechmaking sessions, held in the great gilded ballroom of the Hotel Stevens. They gazed thoughtfully at an enormous shimmering blue tapestry behind the speaker's rostrum, diligently considering the problems of U. S. banking, model 1933. Good reason had they for devoting themselves to work rather than play. For the first time since their counting houses were all shut up and they were called "money changers in the Temple" by the President...
...that World's Fair visitors may have an opportunity of hearing Chicago's famous orchestra," trustees of the Chicago Symphony last week announced that its 1933-34 season would open a week earlier than usual-on Oct. 5, when round little Conductor Frederick August Stock mounts the rostrum in Orchestra Hall to commence his 29th season. Other Chicago Symphony news: ¶ The number of concerts (28 Thursday evenings and Friday afternoons, twelve Tuesday afternoons) will remain the same, but the price of season tickets will be lower. Subscribers will pay $2 to $5 less for the long series...