Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ocean Drive and the Clambake Club were demolished. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's sculpture studio was torn off its cliff. Mrs. Jock Whitney's aunt, Mrs. John C. Norris and her son John C. Jr., were drowned in their car as they tried to motor from Narragansett Pier. In a house at Misquamicut, ten women holding a church social were drowned...
...water of the Potato Patch, where the Atlantic currents sweep around Coney Island into Gravesend Bay in New York Harbor, seagoing, 23-year-old Cowboy William J. ("Tex") Langford poked the nose of a $100 put-put in which he had sputtered down from Boston. Moored just off the pier he tied up to was a slim, long yacht hull. The masts were off her, she could have done with some swabbing, but to Tex's longing eyes she was a jimdandy. To a benign-looking stranger gazing off to sea he said so. Then things took a fairy...
When in 1928 Jules Falk, a Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
Last week the Steel Pier Opera Company, only 100% English-speaking and English-singing opera company in the U.S. closed its eleventh successful year. In more than 400 performances the company had produced 34 different operas...
...people who balk most strenuously at Director Falk's opera-in-Enghsh policy are neither the public nor the Pier management, but the singers themselves. U.S. singers who had learned their roles in French or Italian objected to relearning hem in English, claimed that the transated words did not roll off the tongue so trippingly as the original...