Word: boulevarded
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...Brunswick, N. J., at petition of residents, De Russey's Lane, famed scene of adultery and double murder in the Halls-Mills case of 1922-27, was renamed Franklin Boulevard. Realty in the neighborhood had boomed...
...Calles which was transferred from the train to a hearse by members of the Cabinet and high army officers. President Calles entered his limousine, which followed the hearse at a walking pace as it passed along the magnificent Paseo de la Reforma, a tree-lined boulevard extending in an absolutely straight line for over a mile from the centre of the City to Grasshopper Hill...
...lungs full of sickening face powder. Seriously I am! And what a blessing it would be if there were roads ' "for women only!" Put all the old hens and nice young things and horn-rimmed stickle-backs and back-seat drivers off on a boulevard of their own and let them ball up their own traffic and smash each others' fenders and scream and stick out their tongues to their hearts' delight. Yours for segregation of the impossible...
...Vittorio Emanuele, having seen the excavation well started, returned to Naples. There the proverbially negligent inhabitants have recently completed a subway under the driving impetus of Fascismo. Moreover the boulevard along the seafront, long pot-holed and undulant, is now smooth. His Majesty looked upon these things and found them good. That night fireworks spurted up from a barge anchored in the bay, and Vesuvius made notable His Majesty's visit by an almost polite eruption. No lava spilled from the great cone, but jets of pinky-lighted steam spurted high, portentous rumblings were heard, and few rocks were belched...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate rich-boy, husband of Princess Xenia of Greece: "Milk squirted, glass flew high and wide as my automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur...