Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rides. The Midway has a full Coney-Island quota of thrill machines-whizzing bobsled rides, stratoships, turtle chases, roller coasters. Dwarfing them all is Life Savers' 250-foot Parachute Jump. Using hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them down in ten. In its first three weeks the Jump fetched 68,000 customers at 40? each, among them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin...
Tireless Alan Frederick Lascelles, acting private secretary to George VI, was kept busy last week during Their Majesties' home-bound tour of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia...
...which not even agriculturally minded Lord Astor could raise sheep profitably, Davey welshed completely on his bet, asked: "What would I do with a farm? This is not a case of Davey Kirkwood or any other man, for that matter, going to farm on Lady Astor's island. I want the Government to do something...
...homard is a lobster. A langouste is a big edible crayfish. For centuries French and British fishermen have been trapping both in the swarming lobster grounds around minuscule Maitresse Island, largest of the tiny Minquiers group in the English Channel...
...York World's Fair, Land of Liberty plays daily at the Federal Building; at San Francisco's, in the California Building. No competition for such Fair attractions as Treasure Island's Dnude Ranch or Flushing's Sun Worshippers, Land of Liberty is worth sitting through, if only for the kick of watching Liberty marching to Hollywood's double-quick tune...