Word: cab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tsar of Bulgaria. Far too poor to have a private train of his own, Boris III is apt to be all over the public trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although he by no means is above taking a trick at shoveling fuel. Last week, taking the 300-mile run from Sofia to Varna for a brief vacation in his palace on the Black Sea shore, Boris looked out of the window and found the train stopping half way between...
...popular Princess Mary's marriage to Viscount Lascelles. Exceptions are made for reasons of State and publicity. Thus the official list of wedding gifts accepted by King George's parents includes: "from ten newsboys, a cigaret-holder; from three bus-drivers, a pipe ; from five hansom-cab drivers, a whip...
...autograph of Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway ("ho-de-ho"'), 100 white girls and their tipsy escorts crowded about the platform of Memphis' Casino Ballroom. While they pawed his trousers, grabbed at his coat, Galloway, whose skin is much lighter than his players', referred to his "boys" as "Mr. Payne. Mr. Maxey. . . ." At the first "Mister" the crowd grumbled. At the second chairs began to fly. Off the stage scuttled resplendent Bandmaster Galloway and his frightened blacks. Up over the platform swarmed resentful whites, brawling, falling over each other until police cleared the Casino...
...controversy as to whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...
Almost immediately there was a bang in the back of the cab. The driver thought another car had backfired. At his destination he found the Major dead, blood streaming from a pistol wound in his head. There was a note on the seat beside...