Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second lieutenants is $125 per month, of enlisted men about $21. Transferred from home stations for mail duty they have been forced to pay for their own subsistence. An Army flyer downed in a strange town with the mail must dip into his own pocket for hotel, food, taxi bill. And by last week many such pockets were empty...
...unknowns recruited from Hollywood, Broadway and radio by Leonard Sillman who persuaded Elsie Janis and Charles Dillingham to come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment of its type...
...driving the taxi, for the drives the taxi) Where are the papers? Do you know where the papers...
Driving along a Washington street one day last week. Farmer-Laborite Representative-at-Large from Minnesota Francis Henry Shoemaker bumped a taxi. When Charles Newman jumped out of his cab to protest, he said Statesman Shoemaker doubled up his ready fists, slugged him. knocked him to the ground twice, cursed him roundly. "I'm a Congressman! Nobody can arrest me!" boasted Statesman Shoemaker few days later when he learned that Newman had sworn out an assault warrant against him.- Then he quietly slipped out of the House of Representatives, disappeared. Presently two Washington detectives appeared at Statesman Shoemaker...
Professor Warner stated that the prosecution had handled the case in a very questionable manner. "They lined up the two taxi drivers along with several others. The two men were unshaven and dirty; the others were cleanshaven and well dressed. Wouldn't anyone have picked the two men?" Professor Warner thought that the serious part of the case was the question of what would have happened if the two innocent men had been sent to the gallows...