Word: rostrum
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...Certain weird sounds issuing from the rostrum of the Assembly of the League of Nations last week were only President Eamon de Valera opening the session with these words in Gaelic: . . ."-from TIME, Oct. 10. B'fhéidir go mba chliste dhuit an méid seo thuas a scriobhadh agus b'fhéidir narbh é. Pé scéal é ni fhuil ann acht tuairim TIME agus ar ndóigh ni thigeann TIME teanga uasal na hEireann...
...show seldom varied. First a preacher from his home town of Mil ford stepped forth to praise the aspirant's piety and generosity. Then other independent office-seekers spoke. Then John Brinkley, preceded by his wife and accompanied by his son "Johnny Boy," made his way to the rostrum. Lights were lowered. Only one bright glow overhead illuminated the soft straw hat, the linen suit, the medical goatee of Candidate Brinkley as he took a seat before his loudspeaker and, widely gesturing, began his speech. The Brinkley platform: free school books, cheaper automobile licenses. The Brinkley pledge: that...
Certain weird sounds issuing from the rostrum of the Assembly of the League of Nations last week were only President Eamon de Valera opening the session with these words in Gaelic: "May God assist us in the exalted task before us; may He not permit that we should fail...
...Gasping these words, Indiana's small-eyed, large-paunched Senator James Eli Watson staggered to a chair just in time to avoid fainting on the platform of a Republican rally at Madison, Ind. last week. When he had revived, Senator Watson informed his audience that fainting on the rostrum in hot weather was no new experience to him. He had done it once before at Linton. thrice in Washington, because he always works himself to the highest pitch when speaking...
Suddenly there was a tension, and the Great Man entered, with an accustomed witticism, and the Great Man seated himself on the steps of the rostrum to await the end of the Statesman's oration. The Vagabond's chief interest is in men, not things, and he recognized in the upturned coat-collar and twinkling eye of the Great Man signs of the culprit. Then the explanation burst upon the observer, and he longed to tell of the culprit's crime...