Word: coney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wedding celebration: a Coney Island party for 500 mothers and children out of New York's slums...
...troubles of Cinemactress Clara Bow really began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...
...CONEY...
Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy...
...racket in which the families and friends of Harvard students play the victim in the modern art of coney catching has been disclosed through the receipt of letter to Dean Hanford from a graduate of the class of 1929. The racket, which so far as is known is restricted to New York, consists of approaching the family under the pretence of being a friend of the student or recent graduate...