Word: taxicab
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...French agents of the Sûrete Générale complained that the number of entirely unauthorized amateur detectives was seriously interfering with their investigations. Round Paris cafes spread lurid accounts of secret underground torture chambers in the Soviet Embassy. One story persisted-of a mysterious red taxicab and a man dressed as a gendarme who helped the occupants bundle General Koutiepoff into the car as he was walking down the street...
Surprisingly enough, the French secret police partially verified the rumor. General Koutiepoff had been kidnapped in a red taxicab in the Rue Rousselet, they admitted. On the evening of Jan. 26 an unidentified Russian woman at Cabourg, tiny Norman fishing village, had seen the red taxicab and a mysterious grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman...
...late great Bert Williams are naturally prepared to enjoy the Negroid inflection and viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights of the Sea"), and run a whole gamut of perplexities and predicaments not too exaggerated to be recognized by their listeners. They are supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves...
Last week New York taxi tension increased when Luxford Taxicab Co. announced that it would soon have 1,000 Ford cabs on the city streets, would charge only 15 cents per mile. Fearing violent taxi warfare, Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen who licenses all cabs and drivers interrupted his Florida fishing to telephone a stern prohibition against the new cut rate...
...Reykjavik there are no street cars, but many a Buick taxicab. Constantly soaring back and forth across the country ?a little smaller than Bulgaria or Kentucky?are two sturdy planes of the German Lufthansa. Two summers ago a German tourist brought several bags of vegetable seed, with the result that many nourishing plants, hitherto unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed...