Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your fortune," whined an old gypsy woman at the grandstand where bunting fluttered and only a patch of bright new brick, where a bomb had struck, recalled a recent war. In a third-tier box a discussion raged over whether to open the champagne with lunch or stick to the burgundy. "My God," said one, "the redder with lunch. The champoo afterwards...
...papers were full of strike threats, but somehow no one could quite believe the talk of a baseball strike. There hadn't been anything like it since 1912 when the great Ty Cobb was suspended for climbing into the grandstand and slugging a fan. Then, 18 Detroit Tigers had gone on a sympathy strike-and the management had broken it in one day by fielding a pickup team of substitutes...
...Boston Braves took the Brooklyn Dodgers to the cleaners, 5-3, on opening day. Then they did the same thing for 500 fans whose clothes got smeared on the freshly painted grandstand...
...final runoff was offered to the fans, and grandstand opinion in the Northeast Corner contended that the Crimson would have benefited by it because of its superior baton handling. As it was, their time did not stack up to the 3:26 of NYU, and the four just had to content themselves with the show money...
...atomic bomb may save more lives than it ended. At the University of Chicago, where man's first nuclear chain reaction simmered underneath a grandstand, the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics last week began work. Professor Raymond E. Zirkle and assistants began applying the new atomic techniques to the study of living organisms and their ills...