Word: hansom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years ago, thinks Lampy, there would have been a small committee to insert the too-terpsichorean freshman gently in his hansom cab, and start him firmly on the long, slow drive to Cambridge. The old order changeth, but Lampy wishes merely to caution, and advise moderation to the many popular stalwarts by the Charles...
...year ago there were ten hansom cabs in London. Last week, there were 70. Taxi drivers growled that Americans were to blame because they think a hansom goes better with London than a taxi...
...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...