Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written by Clifford Odets, whose recent play "Wait and Sing" is being considered for the Pulitzer Prize. "Waiting for Lefty" is a one-act drama of the recent taxi-driver strike in New York City. An informal dance will be held following the presentation at Brattle Hall...
...Lits bought Thomas Cook & Son with the result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
Witnesses testified that Cheerful Ifremov squandered 4,200 embezzled rubles -no great sum (see col. 3)-on taxi rides to and from a farm on which he kept pigeons...
Even humbler was the Rev. Brother C. F. X. Athanasius who had a fine still life of a plate of peaches for $35. Taxi-driver Joseph Dunphy would never have had his two pictures in the exhibit at all if an unknown benefactor had not donated the necessary $8 after appeals printed by kindly newshawks...
...over a decade the fumbling artistic strivings of housewives, dentists, firemen, butlers, patent attorneys, and taxi drivers have provided a field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...