Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space was covered by the surging flood of humanity which over-flowed onto chairs, tables, mantlepieces, and bookshelves. Windowsills were converted into benches and the piano into a grandstand, while one determined enthusiast was even found up the chimney...
...fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand, on the Charleston floor...
Bunching at the turn, widening along the fence, looping down past the grandstand they came, entries in last week's revival (in Chicago) of the American Derby, one-time "classic." A florid gentleman in a Panama looked benignly at the scene. He was Colonel E. R. Bradley of Lexington, Ky., owner of a brown horse named Boot to Boot, whose jockey, working his legs like a frog, drew under the wire, a winner by two lengths. The race put $89,000 in Colonel Bradley's pocket, was the fifth derby his stable has taken this year...
While the University nine is playing on the grandstand field, the Second team will take on St. Anselm's College on the Second team diamond. The scrubs opened their season at Exeter last Saturday, and showed lack of practice in their defeat at the hands of the schoolboys. Coach Parent, after a few intensive practice sessions has shifted his line-up, and he expects his charges to put up a much improved game against the Saints today...
Died. Miss Marie C. Brehm, 66, in 1924 the Prohibition nominee for Vice President of the U. S., since 1891 a national lecturer for the W. C. T. U.; at Long Beach, Calif., from injuries suffered in the collapse of a grandstand at Pasadena three weeks previously...