Word: coney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this grand master?" asked the reporter. "He live on Coney Island. He do hundred tattoos every day. He can woik without use only one hand. He woik for big bankers. One time he tattoo senator from Washington. He very famous...
...summer evening last year a Manhattan newspaper carried a story that John Ringling was in a private hospital recovering from an amputation of both legs. Mr. Ringling, who was actually at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel recovering from an infected blister on his instep, was exceedingly angry. The huge moon-faced circus tycoon summoned the Press. Sitting in an armchair, he waved two thick, muscular legs at the reporters and shouted: "It's terrible to send out a story of that kind. I have many friends all over the country and they will be shocked when they...
...Ringling put up one-half of all his circus stocks. Shortly afterward New York Investors sold the Ringling note to the now bankrupt subsidiary. While ill last year, Mr. Ringling had been unable to meet an interest payment of about $18,000. Financier Greve promptly marched out to Coney Island. Threatening to attach the circus receipts, Financier Greve demanded: "Put all your assets in a bag and give them...
...present undergraduates are deprived of seeing and enjoying afternoons of football of their own Alma Mater, and when you go to the games Saturday afternoon in a rough, hustling, jostling crowd, it calls to my mind more a motley crowd at a prize fight in the old days of Coney Island than an intercollegiate athletic event...
...seven years before the College was chartered, somewhere in the Colonies, but was little if ever used. In 1650 the "In Christi Gloriam" seal, which will be presented to President Conant in the Inauguration ceremony along with the present official one, was probably made in London. In 1693 John Coney, the famous Colonial silversmith, made another, remarkable for its simplicity and dignity, which was used until 1812. At this time a simple reproduction was made. Josiah Quincy, President of the College from 1836 to 1846, and historian of the bicentennial in 1836 next essayed a most elaborate design...