Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funniest place on earth, a playground for old and young," so its owners describe Steeplechase Pier at Atlantic City where one may have his hat blown off, his skirts blown up, ride on a merry-go-round, walk through a revolving barrel, slide down a chute into a wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they...
...London his worthy parents made plans for meeting him at the Victoria Station. In Buenos Aires his ship, the Repulse, rose and fell at her pier, waiting. Snow fell softly on the Andes. Then skies cleared; much of the snow melted. The Prince's train chugged up the Andes again, with every prospect of coasting down into Argentina on schedule...
...offered a prize. She would give $1,500, not to mention consolation prizes, for the best name suggested for a 1,500-acre town some real estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
...hour before midnight three figures slipped into Pier 59, at the foot of W. 17th St., Manhattan. They went in by a side door. Within they were jerked upward by an elevator. Two of them went abroad the steamer Olympic. The third bade them farewell...
Alexander Norman McKay, 21, born and bred in Pontypridd, Wales, able coal miner, sailed into New York harbor in the steerage of the White Star liner Homeric. There were 19 other immigrants abroad. These 19 were taken to Ellis Island for. examination. But Mr. McKay was landed on a pier in Manhattan and went about his business unimpeded...