Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anita Peabody. Austrian-born Mr. Hertz sold his school books when he was 11 and became a copy boy, then assistant sports editor on the Chicago Daily News. He managed pugilists before he became an automobile salesman, bought a lot of second-hand cars and started what became Yellow Cab...
...first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing, in one sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent...
...grey timber wolf loping down the track about 500 yd. ahead. He knew what to do. As the train caught up, he crawled out on the cowcatcher, seized the wolf by its tail. Strong teeth slashed his fingers badly before he got his prize into the cab, but Fireman McLeod did not mind. He had upped his record for this sport to two wolves, three foxes...
...days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...
John Daniel Hertz (Paramount Publix, Yellow Cab...