Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door at 201 South Ashland Boulevard, in Chicago's highly unfashionable near-West Side, is open to anyone in trouble. Here come battered bums, anxious women, soul-sick businessmen and troubled ministers of the Gospel. They come to talk to Father David Edward Gibson. A white-haired old man, he sits at a cluttered desk, confident that God guides him in his work...
...Angeles, thousands lined Westwood Boulevard while batteries of searchlights and bursting skyrockets poked at a full moon. Into the fan-shaped outdoor theater of the University of California at Los Angeles came a parade of 60 floats, half a dozen of them on the theme of a U.C.L.A. bruin making hamburger out of a Stanford Indian...
...microphone the chairman was preparing the ovation for Senator Pepper's radio address. "Clap fast," he ordered, "not slow. Scream & whistle. Pretend I'm Orson Welles." Perfunctorily and apathetically, the 300 delegates in the ornate Boulevard Room of Chicago's Hotel Continental responded. "Pretend I'm Joan Crawford," cried the chairman. The applause was better, but still not good enough. "Pretend I'm Henry Wallace." The delegates to the "Conference of Progressives" tore the roof...
Died. The Marquis Jules Philippe Felix Albert de Dion, 90, former "kingpin dude" of Parisian society who forsook boulevard gaieties in the '90s to become a pioneer automobile manufacturer, founder of the famed Automobile Club of France; in Paris...
What United wants to do with its stores was shown fortnight ago when the first Owl "Superstore" opened its doors on Hollywood's busiest corner, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It looked like a De Mille glorification of a drugstore-indirect lighting, air-conditioning and a 56-stool counter-fountain, with endless belt to bring food from the kitchen and carry back dirty dishes...