Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball team of one of its steadiest customers. Fred Brown has followed baseball ever since he left Dartmouth in sophomore year (1901) to join the Boston Braves. A sore arm in his second season forced him out of baseball, into law and politics, but never out of the grandstand...
Loyalist Spain's bitterly fought "war-within-a-war" centred in Madrid and for it General Franco's troops in the nearby trenches had grandstand seats. One of the hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the high bank of the Manzanares River within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time...
Replied William Green: "The chairman of the C.I.O. is still making grandstand plays....Even if he resigned as chairman of the C.I.O., he would still remain its dictator behind the scenes, because he would remain as president and dictator of the United Mine Workers of America, the...financial angel of the C.I.O...
...varsity talents, it gives the opportunity to take part in those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...State's 225,000-odd Negroes registered this year, an all-time high. Of these, 45,000 signed up as Democrats. When Franklin Roosevelt appeared in Oklahoma City in behalf of his friend Senator Elmer Thomas, Negroes were allotted 300 seats in the grandstand. Mr. Thomas' Negro campaign managers claimed their man got 90% of the Negro vote...