Word: boardwalk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Walker, at a nearby beach, which had been favored by a Mayor Hylan boardwalk: "His speeches, like his beaches, are strewn with filth and garbage...
...said he wished that he could parade along the boardwalk the 1,000 miners killed during the last two years, the 40,000 miners injured and their widows and orphans. He went...
Additional factors are that Thaw is worth about $5,000,000; Evelyn Nesbit owns the Café El Prinkipo on the boardwalk of Atlantic City and is moderately wealthy...
...besieged by the press. He smiled gayly if a bit ruefully. "Don't come too close, boys. . . You'll be contaminated. "Don't call me 'Dockerty.' Call me 'Daugherty,' pronouncing it Doherty... "I will let you look at me walking on the boardwalk, but I don't expect I will have anything to say about anything at all. . . . "I would like to see somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show...
...themes employed in previous Grand Guignol productions. R. U. R. is opening in London shortly. A robot with a genuinely English accent should be the height of something or other-ingenuity, perhaps. The outdoor show business at Coney Island is almost in full swing. Hot dogs sizzle along the boardwalk-barkers bark-"the only genuine saltwater taffy" clogs conversation everywhere. The most popular new attraction at present at Coney is said to be a ride-The Caterpillar operated by the owners of "The House of 1,000 Laughs." John Barrymore is at present in Morocco, perhaps preparing for Othello. Theatre...