Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday night in January 1935 a one-act play about a taxi strike had its premiere in a shabby downtown Manhattan theatre. At its conclusion, a Left Wing audience put on the kind of demonstration that What Price Glory? had known, uptown, ten years before. The play was Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets. Two months later. Lefty was running full blast in one Broadway theatre, Odets' Awake and Sing! in another, and critics were writing elaborate Sunday articles about the author. The Left theatre had become an exciting reality for people in no wise Left-minded, and when...
...dreams have taken a worse beating than Russ's. He is always in bad, for fighting the pace of the assembly line (though earlier, running a crane, he complained his helpers were too slow); he marries a taxi-dancer who hates his rhapsodizing about clams as much as he hates conveyer belts; unemployment and a baby eat up his savings; his nerves go to pieces; his obsequious pal Bennie turns against him (why he tolerates Bennie, the human equivalent of a conveyer belt, is a puzzle); and an accident finally puts down his revolt for good...
...station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi drivers...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
...once more. It made him think of the distant days when he first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning solicitors of his full contentment. He signed as he thought of the first time he had heard the sound three trolley cars make when on their way to bed together; of the last vestiges...