Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead sought a WPA grant to renovate the old city hall. Mr. Ickes accused Mr. Tobin, "well wired for sound," of a grandstand "economy" play. Hotly, Mr. Tobin retorted that not he, but his predecessor, had asked for the new hall. From PWA he had accepted three Boston school additions vitally needed. "The President," said Mayor Tobin, "has a task difficult enough, and should not be burdened with a Cabinet officer who uses...
...pilots assured me they would avoid dangerous acrobatics," nervously replied the War Minister, eyeing the visible perturbation of the Corps Diplomatique in their grandstand a few yards away. "I agree with...
...customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded...
...only has this party dictated the writing of this history, but it has dictated the rewriting of American history prior to 1860 so as to make a grandstand entrance for Abraham Lincoln as first President...
...Britons jampacked Epsom Downs last week. As the field of 22 three-year-olds pounded down the curving hill into Tattenham Corner, Pasch was leading and looked as though he might be the sixth favorite to win the Derby since the War. But suddenly, smack in front of the grandstand, a mysterious horse shot out from behind, passed Pasch, passed Scottish Union, streaked up the hill to the wire, four lengths in front. It was Bois Roussel, a French-bred 20-to-i shot, owned by Hon. Peter Beatty, son of the late great Admiral Lord Beatty and grandson...