Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baskets. On a barge moored in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near Valentine's Brook, the Duke of Westminster and his friends quaffed scotch & soda. They were watched, from the Royal stand built several years ago for the Prince of Wales, by a wide-eyed group of Swedish excursionists. The grandstand and enclosure were nearly filled toward noon, when an agitated hare came humping down the home stretch, crossed the finish line and dodged into the paddock...
...grandstand, a British radio announcer tried to tell the world about the finish. "Grakle is still there. Grakle is still there. Grakle is out in front. Gregalach is second and Ballasport third. Grakle is there and Gregalach is there. It is a terrific race. No, I think Grakle will win it. It is a terrific race. Gregalach will win it. Grakle has got it. Gregalach is second and Ballasport third...
...attempt of Representative Crail to have Edgar Lee Masters' "Lincoln the Man" barred from the mails may be interpreted in two ways. Either it is a sincere but misguided attempt to safeguard public morality and defend the memory of a great man, or it is a "grandstand play" for public opinion. The fact that Representative Crail has not read the book in question makes the latter view seem rather more probable...
...Like grandstand experts naming their All-American football teams, leading editors of the U. S. select the Ten Biggest News Stories of the year. Last week President Karl A. Bickel of the United Press, General Manager Kent Cooper of Associated Press, and President Frank E. Mason of International News Service announced their lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept...
...even on the best autumn days, scores of freshmen who ought to have been securing exercise of their own on court or links would be down at the football field watching other men exercise. As for spending the afternoon of a game in the library rather than on the grandstand, this was considered a crime worthy of social capital punishment, even when committed merely as an isolated or very occasional offense...