Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site he chose for his new place was just a block and a half from the old one, but it was south of Wilshire, which meant eating on the wrong side of the boulevard. That disturbed Mike not at all. To raise money he simply assured prospective stockholders that "the south is so much warmer." The new Romanoff's has no back room, but its cheery main dining room is so shaped that everybody can stare at everybody else without much strain. Business, so far, has been double what it was north of the boulevard, even though capacity...
...clerk, then a wine merchant, and for a while he was happy. "I was gaining a foothold. To complicate things, I needed a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids . . . [Then] catastrophe, it took hold of me again. I rented a little atelier on Boulevard Saint-Michel, I locked myself in. My wife didn't like it, that's understandable; she disappeared in a trap door, melted away. Bon voyage...
...little after dawn, somewhere along Los Angeles' Sepulveda Boulevard, Lucille Ball used to meet her husband, Desi Arnaz. He would be going home after a night of leading his orchestra at Ciro's. She would be headed for a day's work at her movie studio. "We would pull off the road and talk for a few minutes," Lucille recalls. Then she adds: "That's a dull way to live, brother...
Dorothy Dandridge is the most strikingly good-looking Negro singer to come along since Lena Horne. Hollywood discovered that fact last year, when Dorothy sang in Sunset Boulevard nightclubs; then London got a look and quickly agreed. But "everyone" told her she still had to prove she could be a success in New York. Last week Singer Dandridge proved it emphatically. The management of Manhattan's La Vie en Rose could not supply tables enough for the customers who crowded...
...only went outdoors and underground. The same girls, reinforced in numbers, nightly patrolled the Champs Elysees and Place Pigalle and swarmed through the nightclubs. With no police regulation save for sporadic boulevard roundups, and no medical inspection, the venereal disease rate skyrocketed...