Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precinct captains and office seekers roared into the fairgrounds, leaving a wake of blended whiskey, cold beer and old Roosevelt jokes. They came by special train, bus, airplane, automobile caravan. They were cocky, noisy, full of fire. As farmers on the midway gaped, they clamored into the race-track grandstand for their own fun & fireworks...
...been billed as "Governor's Day," which would mean that it was in honor of handsome, white-haired Governor Dwight H. Green. But everybody in the grandstand had come to see bristling, ramrod-stiff Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, editor-publisher of the arch-nationalist Chicago Tribune. This was Bertie McCormick's day. Bertie was making his debut as unofficial commander of Illinois Republicans...
...glumly on a bare wooden platform while "Pete" Green and kinky-haired Senator C. Wayland Brooks paid him fancy tribute. He mopped streams of perspiration from his brow, went under the grandstand for a cold bottle of pop. Then he spoke...
...first tee of Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter Country Club, golfers stood around with sour looks on their faces and red numbers on the backs of their pants. A loudspeaker blared to the grandstand: "The next hitter, from Hollywood, California, the man who plays Joe Palooka in the movies-Joe Kirkwood Junior!" Elsewhere on the course, a "Masked Marvel," a man in kilts and Joe Louis were going their rounds. This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros...
Renunciation. Europe and Asia, more interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...