Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
This action is the result of a discussion on Square conditions that was held a year ago. At that time, representatives from the University, members of the Cambridge city government, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, and local taxi companies met at the Cambridge City Hall to talk over the traffic conditions in Harvard Square and around the Yard. Officials present at that meeting divided on the method of bettering the dangerous conditions. They sided with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the center of the Square and to prohibit the loading and unloading...
...excavation back of Matthews Hall where it was reported buried fragments of eighteenth century Harvard blue plate had been recovered. His fund of anecdotes is inexhaustible. The conductors of the subway to Boston salute him by name since, like all true and thrifty Gantabrigians, he eschews the costly taxi. In every sense of an abused word he has been an assured and amiable aristocrat...
...novel, but of a weakness in the story itself. Trying to show how a young officer of the Tsar's guards faces the issues of the revolution by marrying one of his servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming a son of honest toil instead of a Paris taxi driver, it does so in an obvious and sensational way, using the stock episodes of crown jewels, an escape to Constantinople, a U. S. heiress and the officer's slinky Moscow mistress (Lilyan Tashman). As sometimes happens in such cases, there are moments in Scarlet Dawn so well imagined that they...
...which the pilot may "slide" to a safe landing. But thus far there is no thought of flying passengers into a completely blind field. (Occasionally Eastern Air mail pilots do land by instrument at Newark in fog so thick that on the ground, with no radio functioning, they must taxi their planes by compass...