Word: rostrums
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...Parliament would be well advised," he lectured, pounding the rostrum, "to create a body subordinate to itself to assist in its deliberations to the utmost. The spectacle of economic subordinates debating day after day with a fearless detachment from public opinion all the most disputed questions of finance and trade and reaching conclusions by voting would be an innovation, but an innovation which could easily be embraced by our flexible constitutional system...
...Senate, Senator Norris of Nebraska had the clerk on the rostrum read aloud a letter which, he said, he had received from Cross Roads, Tex. Excerpts...
Banging the rostrum as though to smash it, barking his words in thin staccato, turning from side to side and gesticulating so vigorously that his glasses seemed about to fall off, General Dawes delivered one of his best speeches in quite his best, slashing, he-American style...
...angry cries, then loud fervent exclamations rose in the Chamber of Deputies as peppery Socialist Edouard Barth took the rostrum and savagely exposed what he was pleased to call "the nefarious villainies of the French Anti-Alcoholic League...
Then, for the second time in the eight years he has been a Deputy, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg took the rostrum. Germany's potent "Little Man in Blue" was in blue serge as usual. He is the Hearst, Paramount & Famous Lasky Corp. and Associated Press of Germany, a magnat and monopolist of propaganda who has bought the leadership of the Nationalist Party (reactionary, monarchist...