Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped down from the rostrum, perspiration dripped from the intelligent nose of Louis Barthou...
Roly-poly Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, next climbed the rostrum. In all previous Disarmament sessions, Comrade Litvinoff's tactics have been to demand 100% disarmament at once, to pledge Russia to anything the other powers would agree to, and then to sit back and chuckle hugely as red waves of embarrassment flushed his capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world...
...rostrum as presiding officer sat Montana's white-mopped John E. Erickson, 71, who stands 6 ft. 3 in. in stocking feet. Thrice elected Governor of Montana, Democrat Erickson resigned that job year ago last March. Few minutes after his resignation, his lieutenant governor appointed him to the Senate seat of the late Senator Walsh. Now Senator Erickson, elbow on desk, cheek upon hand, appeared not to hear the request of the Senator from Michigan...
...speeches and several shorter ones. Basing their judgment on these speeches, the instructors criticize each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner", and the content and organization of his speech. Many a student learns for the first time that he talks too fast or that when on the rostrum he contorts his body to such a degree that his audience becomes quite dizzy in trying to follow both his actions and his speech...
...have access to the records of the House of Representatives. The Representative spells his name Ayers, and he hails from Lewistown, Mont, and not Lewiston. When last seen in Montana, he did not wear glasses, but if the newshawks actually saw him leave his glasses case on the rostrum I of course am not in a position to dispute that part of the statement. ... As for the claim that he has never made a speech in the House, don't you think it would be a good idea if more Congressmen would emulate his splendid example? E. K. CHEADLE...