Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taxi (Warner). If you have seen The Public Enemy, Smart Money or Blonde Crazy, you have some idea what to expect of Taxi. Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright are camera-minded writers and their stories, which usually deal in an offhand way with violent happenings, have speed, vigor and assurance. Fortunately for all concerned, James Cagney attracted Hollywood's attention at about the same time as Authors Bright and Glasmon. When he appears in one of their inventions the result is often brilliantly successful...
...Taxi, Cagney's impudent Irish face is first seen sticking out from behind a steering wheel, spouting Yiddish at a customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty?a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation...
...Olympic team in 1928. Since then Ray's achievements have diminished, but not his confidence nor his odd, insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving a taxi (his first profession). Last winter he strapped snowshoes on his serviceable feet and finished seventh in the three-day snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal. Last week reporters were not much surprised when they found Joie Ray in a Newark, N. J. dancehall, where a marathon dance had been going...
...Diamond and a few hangers-on lolled over a speakeasy table. "Legs" got up, lurched toward the door. "Gotta go see some of my newspaper pals," he said. "Stick around." Outside he told his taxi man: "Gotta see Marion. Gotta tell her how I got acquitted again." The taxi man drove him to a rooming house where lived his ex-chorus girl mistress Marion Roberts (Strasmick). At 4:30 a. m. the taxi man drove Diamond on to his own cheap lodging house, the best New York's most publicized gangster could then afford. His landlady heard him climb...
...present dangerous conditions and sided on one hand with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the centre of the square and to prohibit the stopping for loading and unloading of all buses. Another group supported the Boston Elevated Company in its desire to remove the taxi stands from the space around the rotunda platform so that the company's busses could stop at the platform...