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Word: boardwalkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great have the mass amusement companies become that they now hold private conventions. Last week was Warner Brothers week in Atlantic City. Lesser executives, between frolics along the Boardwalk, listened to speeches by President Harry M. Warner and Vice President-in-Charge-of-Production Jack L. Warner, heard Warner plans for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warner Week | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

With hollow tubes inside their vests, wily Prohibition Agent H. H. Porter and assistants last week deployed on Atlantic City's boardwalk and drank with oldtime beer-hounds. While the beer-hounds drank, Agent Porter and crew put their liquor into their hollow tubes, to which access was available through the top vest-button. When the tubes disgorged their contents, the agents thought the giant Drink would be slain in Atlantic City. They had seen every sign af drunkenness in 15 different bars visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Giant Killers | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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