Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
...whirl and a dash around Boston. Take hundreds of taxis, pay hundreds of taxi-drivers. Lights, bad music, bad drinks, enthusiasm subsides. Dash around a little more and home...
...this time Quebec cohorts of Vice, in the persons of the city's taxi drivers, had gone violently to the rescue of girls and madams, swinging monkey wrenches and auto jacks in their onslaughts upon Virtue's students. In the thick of the battle Quebec patrons of the resorts attempted to preserve a neutral attitude, diving into closets and under beds. When finally police began to arrive and make arrests the students were nearly victorious, shoving the few remaining girls out of doors into the cold autumn night...
...night long picks and pneumatic drills echoed in the streets. Spain's Radical Government was digging trenches, building pill boxes for the bloody last battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should come. A rigid 11 p. m. curfew was clamped on the capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing...
...moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into a taxi and presented them informally to the city. Police for some reason found this highly irregular, forced Sculptor Diederich to move his greyhounds to the arsenal...