Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average Frenchman the mental picture of the Englishman is generally subordinate to his mental picture of the Englishwoman. The latter is not a flattering portrait. It is the picture of a thin, rather weather-beaten, extremely ill-dressed old maid, clad in sensible check garments, and threatening taxi-drivers with a green umbrella. The French portrait of the Englishman is superimposed upon this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They...
...Miss Ellis made up successively as a schoolmistress, a cocotte and a chestnut seller, singing Paris in Spring. There is also a turntable upheld by living statuary on which she sings something about jealousy. Cinemagoers with sharp eyes and good memories may look twice at the cafe's taxi-starter: Jack Mulhall, star of silent days...
...Seattle Times's news beat on the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping: Reporter Dreher didn't, despite TIME, June 10, ''drag the boy down on the floor of the taxi." The boy rested on the cushioned seat of the taxi with Reporter Dreher on the floor. A half mile beyond the point of transfer from the farmer's Ford to the taxi, two G-men cars were parked. The reporter wished to avoid having an interview interrupted by Federal agents; hence the informal positions of the boy and the reporter. The reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs...
...York has been a Cossack village officially since 1931," said its taxi-driving local Ataman, Cossack Colonel Peter Fedorovitch Abramov, who somehow manages to send his daughter to Hunter College, his son to City College. "It is very silly for the Press to mention me, as I am not a world leader. Our last was Ataman Bogayevsky who died in Paris last October, necessitating this election. The unit of Cossack life for 400 years has been the 'village' and it was Ataman Bogayevsky who made New York a Cossack village...
First presented at a benefit for the New Theatre League in Manhattan, Waiting for Lefty got to Broadway by way of the Group Theatre (TIME, April 8). With lines as pointed as a stiletto, with a unique technical trick which used the theatre audience as spectators at a taxi union's mass meeting, Waiting for Lefty turned out to be a crashing success in tolerant Manhattan.* Thereupon, one by one, 32 League groups produced the show in the country at large and the trouble began. Plays of the calibre of Mr. Morgan's Nightmare had evidently been beneath...