Word: coney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided with the annual Philippine Carnival, a 16-day combination of Mardi Gras, county fair and Coney Island which paralyzes Manila business for weeks. But the director general of the Carnival, Arsenio Luz, was chairman of the Congress Ways & Means Committee, and he canceled all balls, toned down sideshows...
Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
...course the Professor may have been referring to the depressing stabs Americans make at actual gayety--that is, when they are working so hard to have a good time. Americans at play are generally a gloomy sight, indeed. A Rotary lunch-con, an American Legion convention or Coney Island is enough to dismay any philosopher, and the Puritans must have looked a great deal better while taking the one worldly pleasure they were not ashamed of--to wit, getting quietly and augustly fuddled...
...College, oh it's great thing. I envy every one of you. You're lucky, that's what, you are, lucky. Why I went to work when I was thirteen. I pounded the piano at cheap dives on Coney Island, and say, did you know I pounded the piano one place and Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter...
...that sum a purchaser had his choice of such particular bargains as two fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...