Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing concert in Randall's Island Stadium, 23,400 New York City jitterbugs trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders were: Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Vincent Lopez. Absent was Killer Diller Benny Goodman (see p. 22), who will hold his own swing fiesta in Madison Square Garden, June...
...ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors of the 36 into the second...
...seventh race at California's Santa Anita Park one day last week, No. 6 was a horse named Rock X, No. 5 was Bright Mark. At his window under the grandstand, just before post time, a little ticket seller named Lonnie Gray was impassively, handing out $10 pari-mutuel tickets to a line of impatient betters. Suddenly a batch of tickets was poked back through the window and an irate customer demanded that he be given what he had asked for-five tickets on No. 6, not No. 5. Because the tickets had been punched out and recorded, Lonnie...
Hundreds of motorists speed without molestation along a by-pass of U. S. Route 1 right across the territory in insurrection and within a few yards of the grandstand. While races are taking place, thousands of unarmed men and women throng into the park, none of them apparently frightened by the prospect of meeting the things and public enemies of whom the Governor speaks...
Even the horses are restricted; they can take a little exercise early in the morning, but must go back to bed at 10 a.m. Meanwhile vituperative challenges pass to and for between Mr. O'Hara in his pent-house on the roof of the grandstand and Governor Quinn under the marble done on one of Providence's Seven Hills...