Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What difference does money make?" Since he was said to control the billion-dollar Kreuger & Toll pyramid with slightly over $250,000 key securities, Titan Kreuger's contempt for personal pelf was natural. His pocketbook was always quite lean, but other men seemed always eager to pay the taxi driver...
...light of his own achievements, has failed to keep pace with the march of physical accomplishments." Asked in Manhattan if he had more works in mind, he replied, "That rests with God." TIME erred when it reported (Feb. 29) that Henry W. Moltke was a San Francisco taxi driver, instead of a San Francisco policeman. But Policeman Moltke also erred when he told a local judge that he was the grandson of the late great Prussian General Hermuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke who died without issue...
...down to her sister's husband. She finally succeeds in seducing him. Lucile discovers Timothy's infidelity, but soon after bears him twins, forgives him. He is only too glad to shake off desperate Marietta. She, now entirely hopeless, is put out of her troubles when her taxi skids into a dray...
...already on the wane, was for "kid pictures." like Skippy, Sooky, Huckleberry Finn. Another was for "one location" stories, like Transatlantic, Union Depot, the forthcoming Hotel Continental and Grand Hotel. A third, closest to the technique of gang pictures, was a series of surveys of exciting occupations, such as taxi-driving, gambling, swindling and reporting...
...made, an indemnity paid, and the anti-Japanese boycott called off. The city was on edge. Somebody planted a bomb in the Nanking Theatre, largest cinema in Shanghai. It fizzled. A nervous Chinese sentry shot and killed Dr. Alexander Proges, Austrian manager of American Express Co. (known to Chinese taxi drivers as Mei-gwok wantung ngan-hong). A Chinese munitions launch blew up in the middle of the river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole...