Word: grandstanders
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...cheering section of Lincoln (Negro) urged on its team with a sentiment which was jubilantly re-echoed and even carried into active demonstration by a grandstand full of strutting rooters who, in iridescent habiliments, had come from miles around to see that college play Howard (Negro) in Philadelphia. Score: Lincoln 0, Howard...
...race for Air Transports- won by Lieut K. B. Wolfe in a Nuff-Daland-Capt. Earle E. W. Duncan "swiped" against a telegraph pole and lost one of his landing wheels. While the other planes were being cleared off the field he circled over the grandstand, and once more the crowd was swept with unacknowledged thrills at being about to witness an accident. Cant. Duncan was in one of the most desperate situations that can confront an aviator. He knew that a crash was inevitable unless he landed with absolutely flawless skill. He saw an ambulance scuttle out down below...
...Armstrong-Siddeley-Siskin, starting from scratch. Last week, they took off. On the first day, the sun shone clear at dawn; but, before they had gone half way, a fog climbed up to them from the sea and many a plane, bewildered, sought a landing. A "flying grandstand"- an enormous plane fitted with luxurious chairs, glass panels through which journalists and race officials could see what was what-was forced down in a turnip field. On the second day, four remaining planes started round again. There were no Moths left now. Only the pompous Armstrong-Siddeley-Siskin, guided by Captain...
...President Wilson called in 1919. In 1921, Vice President Coolidge spoke at that very spot and met a chilly reception. In spite of wind and rain, a crowd of 100,000 or more stood in rapt attention last week, while the President, speaking from the judges' stand opposite the grandstand, praised the Norwegians who first came to this country a century ago. The Norwegian Minister of Labor, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Storting, the Bishop of Oslo, the rector of the Royal Frederiks University (Oslo), the Norwegian Minister to Washington were present in honor...
...Meredith, famed middle-distance runner of a decade ago, surveyed a cinder track that stretched away, a curving, gun-metal line, from where he sat in the grandstand at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. On that track, in the course of the afternoon, he saw the runners of the University of Southern California win the 120-yd. hurdles, the 220-yd. hurdles, the discus throw, the Intercollegiate Track and Field Championship, with Princeton second, Yale third. He saw two runners-Tierney of Holy Cross, Marsters of Georgetown-each miss by just half a second his famed intercollegiate records for the quarter...