Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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best of luck to track team hayes and crawford lost schmidt hit by taxi green and manager bryant running two laps apiece love...
...that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered him to drive home, telephone the company to call for its cab. As a sideline to being Dickson's secretary, Count Nicolas heads an organization which...
...right in the old ball game every minute, and don't forget it. Didn't he tell those lousy actors where to get off when they wanted to put on that play all about taxi drivers striking. They had no business bringing things like "Waiting for Lefty" and "Within the Gates" to Boston in the first place, did they...
...when he is ignored at a large party celebrating Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very...
...Broad Street railway station in Richmond, Va. is several city miles from the Main Street station. Recently a group of six persons with ten pieces of luggage took a taxi ride between stations and on arriving in answer to a question of fares, the taxi driver said "A quarter, Sir." "Twenty-five cents?" said the gentleman spokesman of the party, glancing at the others of his party grouped hopefully about him, and at the ten pieces of luggage arranged neatly about their feet. "Twenty-five dollars" might have sounded more familiar, but the taxi man stuck bravely to his first...