Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past week approximately 30 Harvard undergraduates, assisted by substantial delegations from Wellesley and Radcliffe, have assisted taxi-strikers in their fight for a raise in wages...
...manager and vice president of Packard's New York company when he was brought to Detroit in 1932 to serve as Mr. Macauley's right hand in Packard's successful invasion of the medium-price field. Motorman Gilman once crusaded against the bad manners of Manhattan taxi drivers by cruising about the streets in an old touring car and forcing offenders into elevated-railway pillars. His big accomplishment to date: raising the pressure of Packard's gentlemanly dealer organization-which last year handled 50,260 cars selling at $990 up (compared with...
...True Confession. Midnight does it. The story-about a chorus girl who lands in Paris on a rainy night with no assets but a low-cut evening dress -is not as fresh as a mountain daisy. But with Claudette Colbert as the chorus girl, Don Ameche as the taxi-driver who meets her at the station, Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore as the millionaire who finances her, it looks as bright and fetching as an artful nosegay. Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which...
...headed waitress is still waiting for that date. Waiting likewise in thousands of U. S. roadside taverns, "jook joints," "pig joints," barbecue stands, taxi-dance halls, are thousands of other "dating" waitresses, B (bar) girls, "carhops," itinerant prostitutes. The dairy farmer's correspondents are also wondering what happened to that good catch...
...matter how varied her roles, Clandette Colbert gilds them with her own delightful personality and carries a Midas-touch of success. Despite its title, "Midnight" takes her from moonlight romance to a light-hearted Paris where she can romp with royalty but feel more at home with taxi-drivers. It is a sprightly picture, never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly...