Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 4:30 a. m. they emerged to find rain pouring. They took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand...
...Kansas City, North Dakota's Governor Walter Welford was painfully hurt when his taxicab collided with another machine. Hospitalized, Governor Welford remarked: "Well; lots of things have happened since I have been Governor. I suppose getting bumped . . . is just another one of those things...
...special study of taxicab horns arranged by New York City police marched spry old Jefferson Seligman, 78, organizer of Manhattan's League for Less Noise, longtime (1888-1934) partner in stockbroking J. & W. Seligman Co. Croaked he after hearing one that screamed, one that mooed: "Both the horns are rotten. The first one makes you jump, the second one makes you melancholy. What I'd like's a little whistle...
...being quotable. It not being quotable. is a musical comedy without words and without plot. Its virtue is its nonchalance which inexplicably becomes a striking feat of dramaturgy. Typical characters: Countess de Maigret as the wife whose idea of an escapade is to ride around the block in a taxicab with a lover who can be with her only in dark motion picture houses; Hugh Herbert as the theatrical prompter who, when off duty, prompts from force of habit the conversational clichés of those around...
...directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung hard on the wheel, narrowly saved himself and only slightly nicked the Greek street car. Three days later he avoided damaging either himself or his automobile when he collided with a taxicab...