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...associates, Taximan Hazard has hacked New York for almost nine years. He knows the personality, the temperament of all the biggest city's corners. His small book relates episodes of his days and nights on the street, not the story of his life. Racing as swiftly as his Packard cab, dodging elevated railroad pillars, circling Central Park, coasting through Greenwich Village, roaring about Hell's Kitchen and along Broadway, his sketches glimpse people mean, kind, tough, luxurious, dull...
...like a Packard. I had one that I drove about two hundred and sixty-eight thousand miles. I took care of it, and it never failed me. If I had to get out of a tight place, I could step on the gas, and I knew just what she would do, and she always did it. Owning that Packard to me meant being sure of having the car I liked best, having the exclusive use of it, being sure that no irresponsible person who had no stake in it would put it out of order, being able to take care...
...Bertrand Russell says jealousy should not be considered a virtue any more, but if you go monkeying around with somebody's Packard for which he has paid good money and thinks highly of, why you are likely to get a busted nose and that's all there...
...Hunter, Mount Holyoke, New Jersey State College for Women. Pembroke, Princeton, Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley, and Wheaton. The Harvard delegate will be selected this afternoon by a committee of judges after trials have been held. The trials are open to all undergraduates and will be judged by Assistant Professor F.C. Packard '20. Professor R. S. Hillyer '17, and other members of the English Department...
...Packard '20 in the coaching of the play, the Club obtained the assistance of M J. Bon de Sousa 1G a graduate of New College Oxford, who is directing the voice inflection of some of the character parts in a play of this sort, the correct pronunciation of the English dialects is one of the fine, points of the production and it is of the inflection that de Sousa is to be the coach...