Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late one afternoon last week a sleek grey taxicab purred up to the Army Building in downtown Manhattan and out of it stepped a youth named Fiore Rizzo. Out also stepped three other young men. The taxi meter registered 65?. The four passengers had only 50? between them...
Pick Up (Paramount). Mary Richards (Sylvia Sidney) gets through with an unfair jail sentence, makes friends with a taxi-driver named Harry (George Raft), starts living with him. He takes up with a Society Girl. Mary's husband breaks out of jail, furious at Mary for being unfaithful, determined to kill her lover. Mary saves Harry's life by pretending to be reconciled with her husband. Then Harry saves Mary in court, when she is accused of having assisted her spouse's jailbreak. All this, cheaply written by Vina Delmar, adds up to another program picture distinguished...
...photographer must be able to handle cameras varying from a vest pocket size to those carried most conveniently in a taxi, but besides nimble fingers he must possess a glib tongue with which to persuade prospective victims to pose for him. In short, press photography is the art of telling a news story in pictures...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
Strolling with his Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey for the first time in four years without secret service agents, Citizen Herbert Hoover found much to interest him. A taxi driver offered them a free ride anywhere. "You know," said Secretary Richey, "we had not had a chance to go out and see the town. . . . Many of the old mansions that he knew have gone. We looked at the Rockefeller Center Development...