Word: hansom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McGoldrick's patients were 100 bums who had been drinking for years-onetime lawyers, doctors, actors, a hansom-cab driver, engineers, chemists, printers, clerks, laborers. Most were helped by Alcoholics Anonymous meetings; others by long talks with McGoldrick aimed at overcoming their feelings of inadequacy...
Boxing the compass: Stahmer is sold on Boston after paying out the lettuce on the season's longest ride in a hansom carriage-Co. 2 claiming Red Coach Grille as their own personal anchorage (this is NOT a paid advertisement)-The Katie Gibbs girls school threw a dance for some of the lads down at the Vendome. Speer, Clevenger, Coleman, Pugh and Clark were there sprawling their Southern selves all over the place. After having made friends with certain of the graders Sigety found his picture in the morning paper the other day as "honor man."-Strunke, running his blind...
...remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...
...this heinous offense to the shades of Holmes† the writer (who turned out to be Professor Moriarty) was fired. He made a successful escape from the office, jumped in a passing hansom cab, and rumbled off over the wet cobblestones into...
...next to Victorian factory children) were the most wretched in England's history; and by the end of the century the mantle of the Mohocks had fallen on a bathetic species called the Rowdy-Dowdy Boys, to whom hell-raising meant tipsy harmonizing on the top of a hansom...