Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being caught up and delayed by Legion ceremonies that he had the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. slow up the train as it neared Detroit. With hardly a moment to spare, he arrived shortly after 11 a. m., drove immediately to Olympia Arena through yowling crowds, stepped up on the rostrum and with many a decisive shake of his square head gravely told the American Legion what he expected of it. Excerpts...
...protest against this form of cowardice!" shouted Deputy Ruiz and rushed toward the rostrum...
...Kremlin where, in the Central Executive Committee room, Mr. Shaw leaped nimbly to the rostrum, let out several shrill whoops to test the acoustics...
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, theosophist and delegate to the Cortes of Spain, stood last week in a rostrum that has not been used for eight years...
...Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister...