boldface

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Boldface residents included Monica Lewinsky, who lived there with her mother as she attempted to weather her own White House scandal.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2018

Boldface names like Bryant and Anthony Rizzo and Theo Epstein — the Cubs president and baseball prodigy who has ended World Series curses in Chicago and Boston — are now local legends.

From Time • Nov. 3, 2016

Boldface author names Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Yann Martel are on the committee calling for his release, and for the release of his wife, Lui Xia, from five years of house arrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2015

Boldface names — by City Hall standards, anyway — made cameos, including Jerrold L. Nadler, David A. Paterson and Ms. Abzug, who occasionally dropped by for a beer.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2013

What are you crying for?" said Bill Boldface, a naughty boy in the village, "eh, what are you crying for, you bold puppy?

From The Adventures of Little Bewildered Henry The Extraordinary Adventures of Poor Little Bewildered Henry, Who was shut up in an Old Abbey for Three Weeks: A Story Founded on Fact by Anonymous