Word: coney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sloan who was imported from England for the occasion, a Whitney horse, Ballyhoo Bey, won the Futurity Stakes, richest race in the world for 2-year-olds. Next year Volodyovski, racing in the silks of William Collins Whitney, won the English Derby and gleeful Mr. Whitney set up Coney Island Jockey Club to $6,000 worth of champagne...
...cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother, sister and cousin are all flyers, and the Fuller planes take up half...
Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued...
...artist much favored by the New Deal is bullnecked Reginald Marsh, Yale graduate, Associate of the National Academy of Design, painter of burlesque shows, locomotives, Coney Island. Out of the mass of New Deal art contracts, Artist Marsh has received enough to keep him almost continuously employed for the past three years, his best known murals being narrow panels of unloading mail sacks in Washington's new Post Office...
Because most artists of ability live close to the Manhattan art marts and consider New York their State no matter whence they came, New York's contribution was the largest, easily the best. Reginald Marsh had one of his riotous confusions at Coney Island, this time entitled George T. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park. Sculptor Mahonri Young offered a bronze boxer. There were able nudes by Isabel Bishop and Alexander Brook and a study of a black parasol by Morris Kantor that was possibly the best still life in the show...