Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a handful of auditors last night, the crime conditions of the country were thoroughly thrashed out by speakers representing Northwestern and Harvard Universities on the rostrum of Paine Hall. The debaters were arguing for and against respectively the question: "Resolved, That the principles of the Baumes Laws of New York be enacted in the several states...
...Committee on Arrangements made another decision: one picture and one only shall adorn the convention hall, over the speakers' rostrum-a picture of Calvin Coolidge...
...Berlin the speaker's rostrum of the Reichstag was surmounted with a wreath of laurel leaves, to honor Painter-Goldsmith-Etcher Albrecht Dürer. Upon the desk of the President of the Reichstag stood, for a day, the Christ-like portrait which Artist Dürer painted of himself...
...house they have lived in and the orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned, as if the stage were the rostrum in the U. S. Senate, with foolish, solemn wheezings. Only Edward Rigby, as the old butler who lies down at the last to die, locked in the shuttered house his masters have deserted, gives a really satisfactory performance in a production which many discriminating playgoers might rightly feel themselves compelled to attend...
Because the German Army has long been suspected of Monarchist leanings, the Reichstag harkened attentively last week when new and fiery Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener declared roundly from its rostrum that the forces under his command are now "pledged and loyal" to the Republic...