Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...races proper proceeded without mishap, save for the injury of one of 13 'chute jumpers who took leave of a Ford trimotor together. The unlucky 13th landed in the grandstand, broke a leg, hurt his skull. Betty Lund, whose husband "Freddy" Lund was a flying partner of Dale ("Red") Jackson (see col. 3), stunted a taper wing Waco as if she had never heard that both men were killed doing that very thing...
...were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain for a long sea trip but we made one." Others aboard the floating grandstand: Reeve Schley, Waddill Catchings, Allan A. Ryan, Leonard Hanna, Rodman Wanamaker II, Mr, & Mrs, Austin Smithers...
...Crickard, without doubt the most brilliant runner of the Harvard 1931 football machine. Sheer speed, plus lightening quick shifting make him a terror for opposing tacklers, and a spectacular thrill for the grandstand...
Epicurean delights during the football season are usually rather rare. Thrills of the grandstand, the bands, the crowds, to the old-timer begin to lose their glamour after a succession of years. But occasionally the powers that be introduce a spectacle that causes the 'ardents', and who isn't, to sigh contentedly much the same way that the lover of the inner linings of his constitution sighs for his special cheese or fish paste...
...batting order, made him clean-up man for St. Louis. In the first inning, he hit a sacrifice fly on which High scored. In the sixth, after Captain and Second Baseman Frankie Frisch had made a two-base hit, Pepper Martin smashed a homerun into the left field grandstand. In the eighth he singled, scoring Rightfielder Watkins. He was then, for the first time, put out trying to steal second. Philadelphia made a run in the seventh inning, St. Louis made another run in the ninth...