Word: boulevard
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Philosopher. Both ancestry and environment made Maurice Gamelin a soldier. He was born in 1872 (the year after the Franco-Prussian War) in Paris at No. 262 Boulevard St. Germain, just across from the War Ministry, in whose shadow he played war games as a child. His mother even painted a charming picture of him at the age of 20 months, beating a toy drum (see cut, p. 20). On his father's side he was descended from at least five generals, one of whom served under Louis XVI. His father, Zephirin Auguste Joseph Gamelin, became Controller General...
...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...
Already the fair has brought much new business to New York. The Hotel Astor, partly in anticipation of fair-increased business, spent $1,500,000 on new elevators, air conditioning, etc. Property owners along Queens Boulevard built $90,000,000 worth of dwellings. The fourth largest suspension bridge in the world (across the East River at Whitestone), an $18,000,000 project, will be opened day before the fair. North Beach airport near the fair was rebuilt at a cost...
Streets of New York (Monogram). Among the studios great & small which turn out small-budget pictures for the nickelodeon trade, little Monogram is a knowing specialist. Its Westerns and other staples, as unpretentious as a stripped jalopy, rattle as steadily to market. Not geared for fast boulevard traffic, they are towed into it occasionally in a double feature, rarely attempt the invasion on their own power...
...lavoir and the straight bohemian life. He now had money stowed away in his "strong box"-a large wallet kept in an inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends for the War, he left Paris...