Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told him that if I were not under arrest and not on company property I thought I should be moving along to my cab. This merely caused me to be propelled forcibly to the steel mill's private police station. Once there I was confronted with a roomful of rednecked, large-footed gentry. . . . So again I explained my business, produced identification from the Indianapolis police chief and suggested a number of phone calls-at my expense. The captain himself appeared...
...From his father the late Joseph Byfield he inherited the Hotel Sherman Co. (Ambassador East, Ambassador West, the Sherman, the Fort Dearborn) and its subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co., which the elder Byfield had started to can foods prepared by restaurant chefs. In 1927 while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately put his chefs at the Hotel Sherman to mixing tomato juice formulas. College Inn tomato juice cocktail appeared in the autumn of 1928. Prior to that there were at least three...
...declared the dapper Cab, "five shows a day is a pretty big order. You've got to keep yourself in the pink to do it. No alcoholic lubrication for the voice, you know...
Pent-up Africa is uncaged this week at Loew's Orpheum when Cab and the boys set their audiences rocking to the tortured strains of Minnie the Moacher and Zazz Zoo Zazz. Any ardent devotee will be completely satisfied by the Calloway contortions and incoherent mouthings, while favorable attention will be directed toward Ada Ward and her condition of Without That Certain Thing...
Preceding Cab on the stage show are Stuart and Ward, who would constitute the main attraction on any ordinary program. The humor of their drunken acrobatics is overshadowed by appearance of the Cotton Club's best...