Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representatives from Harvard University, the Cambridge city government, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, and local taxi companies attended a special meeting in the Cambridge City Hall recently to discuss traffic conditions in Harvard Square and around the Yard...
Nice touches include the contest editor's plan for a taxi race . . . "Just another way to kill a hundred people." One also likes the way the managing editor says, "How many dead...
...years ago Prince Nicholas was roaring over a country road when he came upon a stalled car. A taxi driver once blocked Prince Nicholas' car in Bucharest and Prince Nicholas swiftly kicked him in the pit of the stomach (TIME, April 7, 1930), but this was different. Standing by the car (which had a punctured tire) was a plump, dark-eyed, deep-dimpled Rumanian beauty. Prince Nicholas stopped, descended, bowed and offered to drive the beauty back to Bucharest...
...more preposterous than many detective stories, Man with the Painted Head contrives an atmosphere more realistic than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have...
...sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with him the only obstacle to be disposed of is the fiance who arrives hotfoot from jail. They send him out to wait in a taxi and forget all about...