Word: cab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive) on the Lake Shore & Michigan with a pair of red mittens on his hands and a book or two under the cab seat. There is good reason for "Uncle Dan" to sympathize with the 500,000 men laid off railroads in the past two years. The business depression of 1883 took him out of his cab, put him to work as a conductor on the Soo. From conductor he started up the long grind...
This time no Kylsant limousine waited. The two warders, dwarfed in size by their charge, cried: "Taxi! Hi, taxi!" When the cab drew up Lord Kylsant entered and sat down with a crunch. Asked the taxi driver, "Where...
John Daniel Hertz, Albert Davis Lasker and William Wrigley Jr. were elected to the board of Paramount Publix Corp. Mr. Hertz, retired founder of Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, will be chairman of the finance committee. Asked whether he had a financial interest in Paramount, Gumman Wrigley last week exulted: "I've been buying Paramount Publix stock for a long time, and I intend to buy a lot more. Just this morning I bought 5,000 shares. I don't know exactly how much...
...Harlem, Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway admitted that Songwriter Irving Mills (white) had written the words to the verse of the Negro song, "Minnie the Moocher," but proudly insisted he wrote all the words to the chorus himself. The chorus...
Nikki the aviators continue their attempts to improve their states of minds by antics with cab-horses, hotel elevators, the furniture in Nikki's apartment. Their final and most disastrous escapade is a trip to Lisbon. Here one of the aviators jumps into a bull ring and is gored to death by the bull. Another shoots a disagreeable reporter and runs away after the shooting. A third, accidentally hit by a bullet, expires in theatrical fashion, seated in a horse-cab. The fourth aviator (Richard Barthelmess) is left with Nikki...