Word: taxicab
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...Washingon taxicab, Mrs, J. Hamilton Lewis, wife of Illinois' pink-bearded Senator, left her bag containing $1,000 in traveler's checks, some cash and a easeful of jewels. Next day the cabdriver returned it. On her husband's advice, Mrs. Lewis decided to pay the reward in instalments: $200 down, $100 a month for three months...
...have Seymour elected. But he did succeed in having President Cohu's undated resignation placed in care of Avco Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, just in case. For several weeks matters went smoothly, and one day - the story goes - when Cord, Cohu & Harriman were riding in a taxicab, Cord asked Banker Harriman for the resignation, tore it up. When hostilities reopened, he bitterly regretted his impulse...
...even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence, sometimes tragic, sometimes farcical, makes Central Park a thoroughly diverting, wholly unreliable portrait of an environment which most small children find dull because it contains nothing more...
...field just for the fun of "grass-cutting.'' To his astonishment the plane rose some 20 ft. Hastily Gates shoved a lever, landed with a bang. On the strength of that maiden flight, Gates booked himself for a number of engagements as an aviator. Perhaps fortunately, a taxicab accident put him on crutches and he was forced to seek a substitute. He found Didier Masson. Paulhan's mechanic. Thus Gates became a showman, a role to which he took naturally. In the next 20 years he logged only 600 hr. at the controls...
From Scotland and the U. S. came "evidence" and many witnesses in Claimant Morris's behalf. A nurse and a taxicab executive testified that the late John Wendel, supposedly a bachelor, had confessed to them his secret marriage and the existence of a son. Piece de resistance of the Morris claim was a bust of John Wendel executed in bronze by one Julian Bowes. Sculptor Bowes said that the science of dynamic symmetry had enabled him to reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment...