Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet it he did. He commandeered the child, dragged him down on the floor of the taxi in case any of his rivals might have had a similar "hunch," got the whole exciting tale first hand...
...into three taxicab zones. A ride anywhere in Zone 1 costs 20<<4 and Zone i covers practically all the business and government building section. Since five can ride as cheaply as one, a two-mile trip can be made for less money in one of Washington's taxis (mostly Chevrolets) than on one of Washington's street cars (fare 10?) whose routes are so confused by the city's intricate plan as to be practically unintelligible to a stranger. Rich visitors sometimes tip as much as the fare; less affluent visitors tip 10$; old Washingtonians, newshawks...
...Governor Comstock went into bankruptcy. Among liabilities of over $1,000,000 were $150,000 in assessments on stocks of reopened banks. Assets: $6.376.66. In search of "some good Milwaukee beer." Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon and a U. S. marshal named McKenna bargained with a Washington taxi driver to take them to suburban Maryland Club Gardens and back for $2.50. Thirsty Representative Cannon & friend strode into the club at 10 p. m., found their way out at 1 :45 a. m. On the way back they fell to quarreling with the taxi driver over his charge...
Early summer morning. It gets light early around here. Six o'clock isn't so early though. If we were running some big milk company... we'd do it very well, I feel sure. Listen to the robins. Taxi! Dunster House in Cambridge...
...worlds of screen star and taxi driver meet in a tense drama, "It Happened in New York," packed with pathos and mingled emotions, to prove that all of us are brothers and sisters under the skin. Gertrude Michael, the star, fed up with her public and her press-agent, Hugh O'Connell, is fascinated by Lyle Talbot's manly figure and colorful repartee. We fear the worst when she lures him away from his telephone girl sweetheart and aboard a yacht, where he saves her from a couple of thugs; she says, "Why are you so cold and distant...