Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popcorn, which is served up by the same people who cater to the Yankee Stadium, pervades the place and sets the tone of slightly frayed levity. Most of the stuff is eaten by children, who make up the fifty percent of the clientele to whom Buster Keaton is something new. The Laffmovie probably attracts a higher percentage of children than any other Boston theater, and since that means a higher percentage of truants, it presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons...
...clock Friday morning, 2,000 competitors will assemble before the gates of the Kulm Hotel, march three by three to the stadium and there in chorus repeat the Olympic oath: "We swear we come to the Olympic games . . . in a chivalrous spirit for the honor of our countries and the glory of sport...
...November 15 he seemed to have found it. Brown had battered Yale into the New Haven mud the week before, and Brown left the stadium that Saturday a 13 to 7 loser...
Both of them had crossed the Atlantic with European titles on their minds. In Prague's Winter Sports Stadium last week, Canada's 19-year-old Barbara Ann Scott had hers to defend, and New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button...
...proved a tougher contest than Barbara Ann anticipated. A sharp, high wind off the Vltava River (the Moldau) troubled all contestants in the precise school figure events. And a 53° temperature the day before had thawed the ice in the open-air stadium and left it bumpy and irregular, making it hard for the judges to check the tracings of the figures. Barbara Ann finished her school figures out in front-but two of the seven judges had not picked her for first place. Two days later, in the free skating, Barbara Ann easily distanced the competition, boosted...