Word: grandstanders
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...nonsense, ending with a ceremony to celebrate the factory's wiring for entire mechanization, no humans required. A high wind is blowing, silk hats teeter, the police are closing in on the convict-tycoon, the money in the lost suitcase begins to blow into the crowd, the grandstand collapses. ... At last peace: the factory is mechanized, the ex-workers engaged in mass lounging, fishing, dancing. The two heroes go off singing for pennies on the highroad of liberty...
...Korean on the edge of the crowd threw a narrow tin box high in the air. In an ear-splitting roar, the grandstand flew apart like a mechanical toy. Minister Shigemitsu was blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested...
...stands. It is intended to discourage gamblers from getting information from the players. Baseball players resent the rule because it prevents what used to be a pleasant pastime-chatting with relatives or admirers while practicing before the game. Last week there occurred two notable infractions of the grandstand talking rule...
...motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like a rifle sight on the profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind as the car blurred past...
List: There is a lot of soft music with your report. Candidly now, Mr. Dyson, was not your entire statement just a grandstand play...