Word: boulevards
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...thin man stood by the window, fingering a cigaret, inhaling smoke steadily in long, deep drags, his hot brown eyes staring across Michigan Boulevard's river of traffic, across the concrete esplanade that bridges the railroad tracks, and out to the blue peace of Lake Michigan...
...explosions came from St. Louis, where the $257,000,000 Union Electric Co., one of its crack subsidiaries, earns for North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased...
...reported that mileage tickets are to be issued shortly by the German Railway so that without waiting for fare adjustments following the war they can gratify long-harbored desires to visit Paris and the Riviera. Chief object of interest, however, was the Maginot Line, now in occupied territory, and boulevard gossip in Berlin indicated that it would soon become the world's most elaborate and expensive tourist attraction...
...Oslo, as the fortnight wore on, there was no peace. Leland Stowe had written of the first day of the invasion, "Like children, the people stared." Some of them fled to the mountains, but most stayed in Oslo's streets-while German soldiers bivouacked in Karl-Johans Boulevard and sang Rhenish love songs...
...Dolly") O'Brien, one of the holders of the women's hoard that is a 20% slice of outstanding U. S. corporation stocks, was in Palm Beach dancing with her socialite husband at the swanky Patio, walking with her bulge-clipped English poodle on her South Ocean Boulevard estate. Her amiable, globe-trotting son, Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann, whose father, Julius Fleischmann Sr., died (heart attack) on the polo field, was ailing in his moated castle in Cincinnati. And her onetime brother-in-law, husky Major (in the A. E. F.) Max C. Fleischmann was on his "Edgewood Ranch...