Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheridan, dressed in old clothes, posed on a Hollywood street and got a free facial-in blackface-from ace cinemakeup man, Perc Westmore. She then drove down Hollywood Boulevard in an open car to fulfill her election bet with Democrat Westmore. Hollywood bets led to other antics...
...Ministry's rifle range on the boulevard Victor, the Germans had built an asbestos shed in which they threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets...
...richest family in the country, one of the richest in the world. Otto Bemberg came from Germany in 1868. His son, Otto Sebastian, made big money in brewing, banking and real estate. Retiring to Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club...
...Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring a sure Reward...
...readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season. There were as many ways to break rent ceilings as there are stucco villas on Biscayne Boulevard...