Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis), the waitress who turns prostitute before her death from tuberculosis. The first time Philip and Mildred go out together, he gayly buys a bottle of champagne. When she leaves him for Emil Miller (Alan Hale) he follows them to a theatre, watches them drive off together in a taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged...
Editor Powell managed to despatch his taxi driver to the hotel where one of his staff was staying. Few minutes later "a gentleman with authority" entered U. S. Steel's private police station, refused to identify himself except as "a company official." Said...
...record of this course broken. And today both crews broke it. Simply splendid! Splendid!" Six Williams students chartered a 40-ft. yawl, Cumberbunce II. The night after the race they found Cumberbunce II stranded 500 ft. from her moorings. When one of them hired a water taxi and tried to get aboard, a man with a revolver ordered him off, ordered the taxi to tow him out of the harbor, and then put off into Long Island Sound on Cumberbunce II. Authorities started a search for the first pirate on the Atlantic Coast since 1819, when five were hanged...
...bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress...
Three months ago in Washington. Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...