Brookline

[ brook-lahyn ]

/ ˈbrʊkˌlaɪn /

a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

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Myron Leon Wallace was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1918, a year after John F. Kennedy was born five doors away.
Mike Wallace Reconsidered: 6 Revelations From a New Biography|The Daily Beast|April 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Brookline is the wealthiest of the residential suburbs of Boston; and contains a number of beautiful estates and homes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
Frederick Law Olmsted, the famous landscape gardener, had his home in Brookline, where there are various examples of his work.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
The course tree-y, like Brookline, with great hills here and there.
Fifty Years of Golf|Horace G. Hutchinson

Billy found her dirt to dig in, and her furnace to shake, in Brookline.
Miss Billy|Eleanor H. Porter
I reached Brookline about noon of the 11th of November, and went directly to the field where the fire was burning.
The Fire People|Ray Cummings