Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roof a large restaurant will be built with an outdoor promenade running around the entire building. This oval building will extend to a magnificent garden plaza that will be cut through the development and will run parallel with Fifth Avenue from 48th to 51st Streets . . . the most impressive boulevard of its kind in the world...
...Chicago, where Michigan Boulevard (one of the world's busiest motor highways) meets Lincoln Park, all traffic stopped-to let a goose and her five goslings cross the street...
Police and a squad of Marines battled a mob last week on Hollywood Boulevard. Overhead a battle squadron of airplanes looped and scattered flare bombs. Milling, shouting, jeering, cheering thousands surged along the roped and guarded sidewalk. They came by motor and trolley from miles around, inflamed with the lust to gape. They came to see the famed females of the movies in what is not inaccurately described on nights like this as the flesh. Squired by famed movie males these females dress in their sheerest best to attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood...
Just back from Havana whence the Cuban police had hustled him away, Capone, his brother John and two friends were motoring on Biscayne Boulevard when two detectives stopped their car, haled them to headquarters. There they were fingerprinted, photographed. From Capone was taken $1,161 in cash, an $8,000 diamond. Then they were locked up for "investigation...
What many a through motorist, delayed by local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...