Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President sat in a grandstand and listened to a speech. "Every American boy ought to want to be President of the United States, but when he develops and finds his real work that work may be even more important than being President. . . ." The speechmaker was Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor;* the occasion was the dedication of a Boy Scout camp near Custer, S. Dak. The President was informed that its name would be Camp Coolidge...
Wrapping Mrs. Coolidge in a horseblanket on the grandstand of the Pine Ridge fairgrounds, the President first beheld a Sioux pageant-including war-painted savages, bareback riding and children dressed as beets, carrots, cabbages. He received presents from the Misses Nancy Redcloud, Rosa Red-hair, Jessie Marrowbone, Mary Little Iron, Jennie Blue Horse, Emma No Horse and several chiefs...
...write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers and the rank and file of our membership...
...ceptions "sensationalism run riot." But back of the torn paper and the screeching headlines lay a very sincere and very spontaneous out burst of popular emotion. There has been so much commercialism in everything of late - crimes of passion are accompanied by insurance policies and lithe-limbed athletes hold grandstand conferences. Here was one man who did some thing for motives other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism to feel that Colonel Lindbergh did not cross the Atlantic with his mind focused on Mr. Orteig's $25,000. It was one instance...
Undergraduates and officers of the University may obtain free tickets for grandstand seats at the dedication exercises of the John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge at the H. A. A. and the office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration...