Word: boardwalkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawings in last week's exhibition-showing two windblown cuties on the Coney Island boardwalk-was done overlooking a Vermont stone quarry. "It would have made a beautiful landscape," Marsh recalled, "but not for me to paint. A couple of farmers peered over my shoulder while I worked, wondering where the devil I saw the invisible girls...
There was little time for frivolity, anyway. The girls put in five grueling days of promenading on the boardwalk, posing for pictures, smiling their patented smiles and strutting before a board of eleven judges. The field was gradually narrowed down to five contestants-the Misses California, Canada, Minnesota, Alabama, and Memphis...
...smallest jobs is the building of a boardwalk, which will again connect Houghton Library and the Union, by passing new construction on Lamont Library...
...Worried." Some of his competitors got up at 6 a.m. to get in some practice on the fast cork rings out by the boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said...
...Hair. But Reutherites were not dismayed. They buttonholed delegates along the Boardwalk, in restaurants, bars, hotel rooms. So did Thomasites. In the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel Reutherites and Thomasites came to blows. In the Ambassador Hotel, half a dozen mixed-up Reutherites fell upon one another, upsetting a mammoth potted palm. Three delegates from South Bend bounded from bar to bar, doing a buck & wing and chanting "Reuther, -Reuther, rah, rah, rah!" Boardwalk concessionaires, who had never seen anything quite like it, consoled themselves by clipping delegates 75^ for a bottle of beer...