Sentence examples for summer amusement from inspiring English sources

He used the technique as early as last August, when his opponents, and the press, still generally regarded him as a summer amusement.

A summer amusement has become a year-round enterprise, and the interminable year stretched to 13 months.

And today, tens of millions of their human descendants seek summer amusement by leaping the other way.

THIS is the period of pilgrimage in Paris to familiar shrines like the Eiffel Tower (newly garlanded with 20,000 blinking lights) and the Louvre (with an annual summer amusement park in the Tuileries Garden next door).

Designers had the lofty goal of creating "an amusement park possessing artistic merit to attract a class of people who before resented going to summer amusement resorts of the 'Coney Island' type and to educate the habitual amusement parkgoers to an appreciation and a desire for things beautiful".

Right now, the Bird's Nest serves as a winter amusement park known as the Happy Ice and Snow Season.

In 2004 Amusement Today, a trade paper for the theme park industry, ranked the Lake Compounce ride No. 1 in the world for wooden coasters.

I felt like a mannequin in a 1950s amusement park diorama representing some hypothetical motoring life at the outer reaches of the solar system.

Rivals for the honor include a 1948 amusement device, but it required pictures placed over the screen in contrast to Dr. Higinbotham's self-contained system.

The beauty of this area led to the proliferation of summer resorts in the 1830s, amusement parks in the 1890s and permanent neighborhoods in the 1930s, and was more recently discovered by Brooklynites in undersized straw fedoras.

Rye Playland, the 1920s-era amusement park owned by Westchester County, would get a complete makeover under a proposed development that emphasizes year-round activities and more green space, county officials announced Thursday.