Word: tremont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto he aptly describes as "racy and low, black and sleek." The irreverent description volunteered by a Bostonian on Tremont Street, however, was, "What the hell is that...
Last week Boston winced again. This time the Veterans of Foreign Wars, zipped up by young bloods of World War II, turned Tremont Street into a topsy-turvy midway. As before, bonfires blazed and city-bred hoodlums filtered through the chaos to multiply the veterans' pranks...
Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
...assembly area made up of 18 tent cities named Boston, Brooklyn, Cleveland, New York, San Antonio, St. Louis, Carlisle,†etc. The general idea in redeployment camps: keep morale high with plenty of recreation, shows, liberal leaves, a taste of home in advance. Thus "Boston" has "Tremont Theater." At "Brooklyn" is a home plate from Ebbets Field, a bag of Coney Island sand...
...Army Supply Officers' Training School are now taking what is known in the trade as the mid-term exams. There are six of them, arithmetically speaking, each of which, barring one, is scheduled to last for three hours, or the time equivalent to a double feature down on Tremont Street...