Word: boardwalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight some 8,000 school superintendents, principals and teachers turned up in Atlantic City for the winter's biggest pedagogical parley: the convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. The superintendents rambled up & down the boardwalk, talked shop, patted each other decorously on the back. It was a Sunday afternoon and the convention would not get fairly under way until Monday morning. The educators sunned themselves...
Prides of Atlantic City, N. J. are its seven-mile boardwalk along the ocean front and the special force of 24 patrolmen whose chief duty it is to see that visiting couples keep their more wayward ideas to the privacy of hotel rooms, that male bathers keep their shirts on. Perhaps even more of a civic monument is Mayor Harry Bacharach, who attracted considerable attention two years ago when he moved his office to a space on an amusement pier between a chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite so that job-seeking visitors must pay 25? apiece...
...second time in three days the New Jersey coast took a terrific beating. The hurricane swept away the 300-ft. pier at Cape May where U.S. Marines patrolled the streets to guard citizens against fallen wires. The high combers devoured two sections of Atlantic City's famed boardwalk. Barnegat Light, 75 years old, was imperilled when the sea munched away the land to within 15 ft. of its foundations...
...shoe so that it makes i^ turns before reaching the stake or so that it makes if turns. The 71 men and ten women who lined up in Chicago last week for the World's Championship Horseshoe Pitching Tournament were about evenly divided. In twelve courts on the boardwalk overlooking the north lagoon at A Century of Progress, they pitched into boxes six feet square, filled with blue clay. In the qualifying rounds-high score for 100 shoes, with three points for ringers, one for a pitch within six inches of the stake-all but six women...
...Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick O'Brien, now Mayor of New York. Charlotte Pixel called 125 witnesses to swear that she had been publicly recognized and accepted as Erlanger's wife. One witness described an Atlantic City boardwalk scene in which Erlanger declared he was "doubly married" to Charlotte Fixel. About 75 other witnesses appeared to tell how Erlanger considered himself single, how he expressed a desire to be rid of "this woman." Surrogate O'Brien decided for Charlotte Fixel. His ruling entitled...