Word: coney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating the telephone at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre...
...knocking it down with the flat of his hand for a gavel. Altogether he has sold over $1,250,000,000 worth of other people's land and buildings. Some 20 years ago he bought himself a sandspit -most of it underwater-at the east end of Coney Island, paying more than $1,000,000 for it. There he developed "Manhattan Beach" which during Depression was valued at $10,000,000 on the tax lists. He expects it to be worth $100,000,000 when inherited by his grandchildren. But that is only one of his many properties...
Last week the scene of his great stroke for Capitalism against Depression was again Brooklyn, this time to the west of Coney Island. On Gravesend Bay, where ocean liners, after passing through The Narrows, almost cross his front yard, he owns 13 acres of bona fide land, some 38 acres beneath the sludgy waters of the Bay. What Joe Day wanted above all else was $5,500,000 in cash to build apartments on his land...
Since Miss Colbert has 165 hours to herself, she has time enough to meet the romantic gentleman who falls in love with her at Coney Island. The one realistic touch, constant passage of fat, scrawny, pimply legs occurs at this juncture. This is probably the reason he doesn't fall in love quite properly. We see him next stepping on a steamer only to learn from the ship reporter that he is the son of a prominent English nobleman taking a little vacation...
...with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...