Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papal delegate witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the St. Louis Cathedral. Last week, following appropriately the brilliant pageant of the Eucharistic Congress, church princes, prelates, priests participated in the medieval liturgy of consecration. Seven o'clock in the morning saw 8,000 reverent worshipers on Lindell Boulevard gazing awe-struck at the Cathedral's granite walls, at its glistening green dome. The massive doors swung open. Came forth in stately procession acolytes, priests, deacons, followed by Archbishop Glennon wearing a white cope and carrying the episcopal crozier. Thrice this holy array rounded the Cathedral. Thrice...
Last week License sported, as is her wont every June, on her favorite bank of the Seine, the left one. All one afternoon the cafés and bars along the Boulevard de Montparnasse filled slowly with semi-nude men and women, daubed and stained, and greasepainted brown, black, crimson, orange, vermilion, blue and green, with headdresses, beads and anklets intended to indicate that they were Aztecs of ancient Mexico. They were students, and eager friends* of students, and joyful models of students at the Academie des Beaux Arts. The year's work was over and preparations were...
...Ecole des Beaux Arts. Rosa Bonheur's pupil, Anna Klumpke of California, showed a hot-colored flower study. Young George Hill, who preserves what he can of the solitude and fresh air of his native northern Michigan by living in one of the loftiest studios on the Boulevard de Montparnasse, received fresh compliments for his clear, restful "Tea on a Balcony...
...Drake Hotel, situated at Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Boulevard will be the general headquarters of the meeting, and registration will be held there on all three days from 9 to 5.30 o'clock...
...facts of Mr. Lewis' offense are simple. Standing on the rostrum of the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church, he took his watch out of his pocket with a theatrical gesture and laid it on the prayer desk before him. It was an accurate watch, he said. He would give God ten minutes precisely. . . ten minutes to demonstrate that He existed by striking him, Sinclair Lewis, author, dead where he stood. The people in the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church waited patiently. In the Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church a few blocks away, a "golden wedding choir" (men and women who had been...