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Word: cab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cab driver said Schafer stopped in a tavern on the way back and made him wait. While admitting that he had indeed stopped in a tavern, Schafer denied that he made the cabbie wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Official Protests 'Foul' on Fare, Is Arrested | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...much for Mrs. Josephine Shaw of Cleveland. Just because she couldn't whistle, she complained to the Yellow Cab Co., she could never get a taxi. The company consulted its drivers. Yep, they agreed, it was true-hardly anybody knows how to whistle down a cab anymore. Even the men stand mutely, flail the air with a newspaper and hope. "And the women never could whistle," added Cabbie Joseph Likover. "They just run along the curb and wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Phweet, Phweet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Yellow Cab ordered 110,000 tin whistles (total cost: $1,500) and distributed them last week to frustrated Clevelanders. The response was reasonably shrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Phweet, Phweet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...sure way to every bubble-breasted little golddigger's heart? "Still around, but dying out," reports Cartoonist Arno. "He got hit hard by the crash and all but vanished under a bale of taxes in the '30s. Nowadays you see all kinds of people in my drawings-cab drivers, boxers, doormen-people you never saw there before. Sign of the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shoo Shoo, Sugar Daddy | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...ride horseback to the theater through a heavy downpour. ("How," pleaded Virginia, "do you put the top up on a horse?") On the way to Denver, press-agents stopped her train so that she could leave the comfort of her compartment to act as "guest engineer" in the cab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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