Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxicab accident was his excuse for missing last week's Tristan. But Philadelphians were no more concerned than when he decided to go hatless, scold subscribers, ride a hobby horse at rehearsals. Stokowski had ''taxi trouble" in 1927 after which he took a leave of absence. He was "hit" again in Manhattan in 1930 when his performances with the Philharmonic suffered in comparison with those of Arturo Toscanini. Stokowski's position in Philadelphia was strengthened materially when his great admirer Curtis Bok lately became president of the Orchestra.* And it is an open secret that Manager...
...Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese priests, a pagan temple, a Chinese junk, a U. S. pickaninny. Of all the well-chosen, well-reproduced photographs, the one most likely to cause pause is captioned: "Taxi? Here is the Mongolian version of the taxicab, with its toothless and carefree Jehu. Outer Mongolia presents many problems. . . . But its missioners watch and wait patiently- a policy borne out by the Church's 20 centuries of mission experience...
...street once more, he hailed a taxicab, rolled down Pall Mall, past the sooty pile of St. James's Palace. The Major rapped on the window...
...took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have appeared in the script, all of them conceived and impersonated by Gosden and Correll...
...exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another, one might see the panama of NRA's General Johnson, the grey fedoras of the National Labor Board's Senator Wagner and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor-but seldom "Madam Queen's" tricorn...