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grandstand, grand-stand
[grand a. 12.]
1. The principal stand for spectators at a race-course, football ground, etc.
1834N.Y. Sporting Mag. Nov. 169/1 At the Grand Stand Chapple let him go, and he won by a length in a canter. 1841Tattersall Sport. Arch. 91 The first brick of the Grand Stand at Ascot was laid on the 5th of December, 1838. 1872Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 20 On arriving at the course we were placed in the grand stand. 1961F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 28/1 Grand Stand, that part of the football ground generally containing the business offices, dressing rooms, press box, reserved and special seats, etc.
2. attrib. Intended to impress the spectators in the grandstand; as good as if viewed from a grandstand. So grandstand finish, a close and exciting finish to a sporting contest; grandstand play (U.S.), a way of playing a game with an eye to the applause of the spectators in the grandstand.
1888M. J. Kelly Play Ball viii. 39 It's little things of this sort which makes [sic] the ‘grand stand player’. They make impossible catches, and when they get the ball they roll all over the field. 1893W. K. Post Harvard Stories 308 They all hold on to something or clasp their knees tightly—to faint or fall over would be a grand-stand play. 1904Utica (N.Y.) Observer 23 June 6 The ultimatum to the Sultan of Morocco, ‘Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead’ was a good one. But telegraphing it to the National Convention at Chicago made it look very much like a grand stand play. 1906S. Ford Shorty McCabe (1908) xiii. 276, I makes a grandstand finish, and then has the nerve to face the audience and do a matinée bend. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xx. 163 Then [André] Breton made another grandstand play. 1958Spectator 1 Aug. 172/2 Dumaine's shrewdness and his grandstand view of French post-war history. 1958F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. 49 Grand stand finish, very vigorous exchanges of blows in the final round of a boxing contest. 1967Bucks Examiner 6 Oct. 2/1 He..had a grandstand view of Sir Francis [Chichester] and his yacht.
Hence ˈgrandstand v. intr., to perform with an eye to the applause of the spectators in the grandstand. Also ˈgrandstander, (a) one who occupies a seat in a grandstand; (b) one who ‘grandstands’.
1891Sporting Times (N.Y.) 23 May 3/3 During the four New York games there were never less than 2,200 people at a game, and 50 per cent of the patrons here were ‘grand-standers’. 1900Cincinnati Enquirer 23 June 1/9 [Kentucky will go for McKinley] if Teddy can only be secured to do some ‘Grand Standing’. 1914S. Blythe Fakers 163 That old grandstander, Rollins, is making a good deal of a row over the franchise matter. 1920C. H. Stagg High Speed vii. 121 A car like that, and in the hands of a grand-stander! 1927K. Nicholson Barker 132, I ain't grand-standin' an' I'm tellin' you what I'm goin' to do. 1935M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xiii. 120 ‘Sure, he's grandstanding,’ said Matter. 1935E. S. Gardner Case of Howling Dog xv. 151 The public will think you're simply grandstanding for the purpose of getting a big fee out of the trial. 1948Sat. Even. Post 24 July 21/1 Editorial blasts..have described the general in many unflattering terms—namely: a blunderer; a grandstander; a bull in a china shop; a trouble causer. 1970B. Knox Children of Mist v. 114 Adam Jennings loves a chance to grandstand. This was made to order. |