Word: cab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circuit and an ensuing riot of three thousand; while but a short time before another train speeded its wheels off and forced the passengers to hoist themselves up for air by ladder. In the Londoners' challenge there is no mention of the comparative velocities of London and New York cab horses. The only possible explanation of this omission is that the London cab horse is so glaringly inferior that no amount of effrontery could put him in a class with those swift American ponies which coast along the curbing of Fifth Avenue...
...gloomy outlook from any point of view. The undergraduate looks out from his window at the sky and the roofs and the slush,--all a dirty slate gray,--blows his nose and mutters: "Dab it, Cab-bridge is one town that God forgot!" But it is less trouble to go on sneezing and gargling than to go to the doctor's office at the outset. There the service costs nothing and a little properly directed attention can put an end to an embryo cold which is a personal discomfort and may be a public nuisance. With the storm-signals...
...Vanderlip on board, got to Moscow. The train got to Moscow just on the minute, but six days late. Our hero stretched his weary limbs and asked which was the way to the munificent palace of the Kremlin where the concessions were. Thither he proceeded by hiring two cabs, one for himself and one to carry the paper rubles to pay for the first cab. Soon he got to the munificent palace of the Kremlin where the concessions were and was introduced to Mr. Lenine, who asked him please to speak loudly as the plumbers were engaged in repairing...
...hero then said the he must hurry because he had an appointment with the reporters in Stockholm and Mr. Lenine escorted him to the cub and kindly consented to pay for the cab and asked him to give his have to Mr. Winston Churchill. And so our hero drove away from the munificent place of the Kremlin, waving his hand to Mr. Lenine, who stood in the doorway smiling a gracious, czardonic smile. New York Evening Post...