Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately a number who went to the Observatory Thursday to see stars were sadly disappointed by the overcast skies. One eager maiden anxious not to miss the wonders of the heavens took a taxi in the Square directing the driver to the Harvard Observatory. "Hurry." Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...
...clock was whirring which meant eight. He had to take a taxi to get to the station in time, and that left him only 40 cents to lunch on. On the cold drafty trains, filled with foul cigar smoke, men in crumpled brown suits, played poker...
...service work, a young man in Summer School invited himself out to Chestnut Hill the other night, and was asked to bring along two friends. Being one of those people that advertisers like to talk about, he didn't have any friends, so he went out, got himself two taxi drivers in the Square, dressed them up, and rode out. The girls like them. The taxi drivers enjoyed...
...unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...
...private cruises there is a "water taxi" stand in back of the South Station and another at Charlestown, under the old Warren Bridge, which is north of the one the Seaman's Friend launch sails from. The Charlestown taxis are extremely inexpensive, in fact fifteen cents takes you a long way. You can just cruise, going way out to Brewster if the weather is good, or you can take along a lunch and be left to spend the day on Governor's Island or Peddockls, Governor's Island has the ruins of old Fort Winthrop, and is large and explorable...