Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...
...rapid succession, lively, gracious Fred & Adele Astaire (Funny Face, Smiles) entertain with dancing to an accordion played by Brother Fred; a tasteful tune, "High & Low," is introduced; Frank Morgan (Topaze) and straight-faced Helen Broderick (Fifty Million Frenchmen) engage in a long argument while waiting for a taxi; Dancer Tilly Losch (This Year Of Grace) exhibits herself sinuously in a tasteful routine. Included in the tomfoolery is that extremely funny man Philip Loeb (Garrick Gaieties, June Moon...
...upper west side flat two young criminals had been cornered with the aid of tips by one of their girl friends and a taxi driver. They were undersized Francis Crowley, 19year-old lather, and Rudolph Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...
...York City, still mildly horrified by the murder of Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9, et seq.), received out of the East River the decomposed body of Rose Yasso, missing since February, and found by a roadside the body of a redheaded "taxi- dancer" evidently shot after a drunken brawl in an automobile. Police found all the brawlers but the murderer, who had departed hastily...