Word: piers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Steel Pier Opera Company last week began its tenth season with an English production of Il Trovatore. Henri Elkan again conducted. Other operas listed: Verdi's Rigoletto, von Flotow's Martha, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana...
...boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers. By 1910 sand sculptors, with bucket, blanket or hat to receive contributions, had become as much an Atlantic City fixture as its wheelchairs, fortune-tellers and Million-Dollar Pier...
...licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told...
...plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would rest was crumbly serpentine "unstable to a degree likely to endanger the bridge." This blast was apparently the reason...
...North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American pier in the Hudson River, 10,000 sober-faced Germans gathered for services over 28 flag-draped coffins while a U. S. Navy blimp circled overhead...