These pious people, employed by the ruling class to maintain ruling class prestige by demonstrating that wage slavery has nothing to do with white slavery, attain their purpose by restricting the word "economic" to food and shelter; forgetting that young girls do not live by bread alone, but also by ribbons, and silk stockings, and moving picture shows, and trips to coney Island, and everything else that gives a momentary escape from drudgery into joy.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
But let the tenement mother or the isolated farmer's wife entertain the minister or the school-teacher, the candidate for sheriff or the ward boss, let her go to coney Island or to the county fair, and at once an outside standard is set up that requires greater regard for personal appearance and leads to "cleaning up."
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
Patsey brought her home a white dress one day, and said they would all go down to coney Island some Sunday.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas