Word: rostrum
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This was hot news to Philadelphians, who have not had a gaudy mayor for four years, not since the late Samuel Davis Wilson, who carried around a little rostrum which he would solemnly place on the speaker's table. When he flicked a switch, neon letters flared: "S. Davis Wilson, Mayor...
...Senate stood in recess. North Carolina's Joe Bailey and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar stayed on the floor. But most Southern members were conspicuously absent. Escorted by a committee of four, including Alabama's Lister Hill, a slender, smiling Negro entered the Senate chamber, mounted the rostrum. The members of his party were ushered to their seats. Then Vice President Henry Wallace introduced him: "Members of the Senate, ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the President of Liberia...
...ensuing Senate debate was able to refute the arguments of Happy Chandler. But next day the Prime Minister of Great Britain took the rostrum and the task...
Blue Suit, Grey Suit. Half a dozen klieg lights beat down on the chamber as the Senate and the Supreme Court straggled in. Suddenly, in the President's gallery over the Speaker's rostrum, a door opened and two figures appeared. The woman, taut-faced and slender, was dressed in a dark blue suit, tiny black velvet hat perched well back on her head. The man, in suit, shirt and tie of matching grey, was deeply tanned under his blond hair. Every eye in the chamber watched as they walked to their seats. Then, as one man, Congress...
...grow a beard to match that moustache and he will not become a hermit . . . The Navy is going to fix up Bernard Bob with a special set of flags to work right form his seat in Code so he won't have to go up to the rostrum between classes . . . The Navy Wives again urge the Lads to trip the light fantastic a la juke box on Monday nights at Phillips Brooks between 9 and 10 . . . Tickets for the Regimental Ball on the 26th will be limited to 500 so get yours as soon as they go on sale...