Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...
...President leaned heavily on the rostrum, threw open the big black leather binder, straightway began his message to the 77th Congress on the State of the Union. Outside the Capitol, roped-off on the stretching plaza, stood hundreds of people. Many had been there since early morning. They could see and hear nothing in particular. They were just there...
...that high concept there can be no end save victory." The President handed Messrs. Garner and Rayburn each a formal presentation copy of the speech, shook their hands, walked slowly down the ramp from the rostrum. The crowd still stood outside the Capitol a little while after he had driven away...
...recessed for 15 minutes, then flowed augustly on. As Garner, stammering occasionally and looking lonely and uncomfortable in his striped trousers and cutaway coat, put the Senate through its routine opening paces, the atmosphere was staid and grave. Senators elected and re-elected in November filed up to the rostrum in groups of four to be sworn in, each escorted by his State colleague. Only Hiram Johnson preferred to walk alone...
...short speech. The Chamber was packed, and brilliantly. In the visitors' section sat beautiful Queen Farida, demure in a white veil; the jeweled wives of Egypt's aristocrats; diplomats in all their brocade; generals in all their braid. The King sat a few feet from the rostrum...