Word: hansom
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Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...
Author Steen is more in her element when Johnny comes marching home to break his heart in late-Victorian England -a world of hansom cabs and monocled cads, where every girl is in danger of losing something called her "reputation" and every man's favorite cuss word is a sibilant "Pish!" Still Author Steen does not fuss too much about period accuracy: her male characters speak fluent, up-to-date
...Into a Hansom. Despite the hard, rough work, the market men like it. In the old days they did well enough to don Prince Albert coats after work and ride home in hansom cabs. They still pay their workers well. Example: fillet men (who can reduce a fish to pure meat with three or four deft swipes of a knife) get up to $125 a week...
...After brooding about Europe's plight, John Hawkins, 39, a Manhattan hansom cabbie, donned a surgeon's gown, led his horse, Sunshine, to the basement of a livery stable, stunned the animal with a hammer blow, and set about carving up the carcass. When Hawkins' project to send meat to Europe was interrupted by police, he explained: "With the coming of winter, I was convinced that thousands would...
...infinitely more animated as well as being better lit. . . . Its policemen, barely discernible as they patrolled the fog-bound streets, resembled our own; but . . . they never took their thumbs out of their belts, and the only traffic they were called on to regulate was an occasional hansom...