Word: taxi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Venice was veiled with flags in his honor; people cheered when they spied him on foot or in a boat. Mayor Walker quickly called the gondoliers "wet taxi drivers," the canals, "nature's pavement." On being shown the Doges' Palace, he lighted a cigaret, murmured to Count Pietro Orsi, Podesta of Venice, "Very historical." When he saw the sunset-colored pajamas worn by other guests in his hotel, he reflected, in jocular fashion: "If I dress like everyone else here nobody will know whether I am just getting up or just going to bed. Perhaps I will...
...days does Felix Delia Vecchia labor and do all that he has to do. On the seventh he does some more. Mr. Delia Vecchia operates a taxi service (four cabs) from headquarters near the Red Bank, N. J., railway station...
...Last Sunday was the first Sunday of the new month. Mr. Delia Vecchia received no call for free church rides. Said he: "I don't understand the people of Red Bank. They are either too lazy to get up and go to church, even with free taxi service, or think that there is something crooked or strange because they are getting something for nothing...
...Bourget flying field, near Paris, ventured Charles A. Levine, stubby, irascible transatlantic flyer. There he bade mechanics start the motor of his plane, the Columbia. When they obeyed, thinking he wished to taxi about the field for amusement, Charles A. Levine got in all by himself, reared along the runway, tilted the wings, jolted clumsily into the air, swooped dangerously over the airdrome, then set out over the Channel for England...
Unimpressed, Patrolman Gallagher escorted Catcher Devormer, his sons, their toadies, to the police station. Soon he saw Catcher Devormer get in a taxi and set off for the Polo Grounds, saw Catcher Devormer's sons, jeering and sneering, trot back to their home. The judge had given a suspended sentence to the Devormers, pere & fils, had gently advised the brothers to play no more one o'cat in St. Nicholas Avenue, the catcher-father to interfere with no more officers...