Word: taxicab
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...more than that-he had what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi Weekly, house organ of the cab profession, describes the Luxford thus...
...Hero for a Night. This is one more airy and erratic farce which tries not very successfully to add to current aeronautical excitement. The plot concerns an easygoing taxicab driver and a thieving millionaire who head their plane for the Manhattan Stock Exchange and arrive, with surprising ease, in Russia. This funny & heroic feat enables the taxicab driver to marry the millionaire's daughter...
Behavior. Major Arthur Kipling, chief of the Legion's military and police division, reported the legionaries' Paris conduct as "150% better than the U. S. Conventions." Not more than five cases of drunkenness were in court at any one moment. Cafe and taxicab arguments resulted in no serious assaults. The Red Cross treated only 1,400 cases during the week, mostly sore feet, fatigue, colds, temporary alcoholism...
Miss Brown says good-by to Colonel Dessiter and proceeds further into her new world. It contains sudden wealth and perpetual excitement?attractive male plotters, vicious female ones; noble Russians and villainous; plentiful bombs, taxicab rides, cocktails, cryptograms. She would never come through safely but for Colonel Dessiter, who does not die after all. Through a special secret Government bureau, X. Y. O., they foil Moscow, save the nation, preserve the world. On the last page, Miss Brown learns that Colonel Dessiter's name is Geoffrey. "Then, for the first time, Miss Brown was kissed upon the lips...