Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a grandstand dog-lover wondered how judges could pick the little lamb over "real dogs." How on earth can a judge decide between a Pomeranian and a pinscher, anyway? One Westminster veteran offered an expert's explanation: "The crowd sees only six dogs in the ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much...
Catering to the public love of murder was one of the things which made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe...
...that day had been the pregnant phrase "a central democratic all-German government." The others appeared to pay no attention, at first. But next morning, studying the transcripts, U.S. and British delegates realized that the phrase could not be ignored. Molotov was talking straight to German nationalism and the grandstand of German public opinion, while Communist fellow travelers in the U.S. were accusing Washington of bidding for German favor...
Harry Walker's circus catch was not a grandstand play. After an attack of spinal meningitis in the Army three years ago, he was so stiff that doctors doubted he could ever play major-league ball again. He is still so stiff that he cannot make shoestring catches. But by applying base-running technique to his ball-chasing, he manages to be one of the most spectacular fielders in the game. Last week he was doing more than that for Ben Chapman's last-place Phillies: with a .344 average, he was leading both leagues in hitting...
...Buenos Aires' broad, stately Avenida Alvear last week, municipal workers in faded blue denim wearily hammered together a new temporary grandstand. "What is this for?" asked a reporter. "The July 9 Independence celebration? The arrival of Chile's President?" "Quién sabe?" answered a carpenter. "Perhaps for that. Perhaps for the return of the Sñora from her voyage. Ah, sñor, you have read of this voyage? A miracle, is it not so? Surely, all the world must know...