Word: taxicab
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Died. Philippe Daudet, 14, son of Leon Daudet (French Royalist leader), grandson of Alphonse Daudet (writer), in Paris, suicide, by shooting himself in a taxicab...
...William Wilkinson, "the Bishop of Wall Street": "For years I have conducted open-air services in the shadow of the great banking houses. Last week I was run down by a taxicab and was taken to the Broad Street Hospital...
Kinney, the Apthorp monkey who disappeared a week ago Saturday, returned to his winter apartments last night, tired of his diet of "The Book of Knowledge" and linoleum rugs on which he had been living in an East Cambridge boarding house. At eight o'clock yesterday evening a taxicab, with closed doors, stopped before the Crimson Building while the driver and three owners coaxed, ordered and finally forced the evasive guest into a box preparatory to removing him to his old quarters...
...afterwards a friend of his suggested to me that it would be difficult for him to find and enter a profession not already overcrowded. Said I: 'I have a profession all picked out for him. I am going to bring my son to America and make him a taxicab color designer...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Helen Menken injects a great thrill into the slums of Paris with aid of a depraved sister, a romantic sewer diver, and Eloise, a taxicab with three cylinders in the grave...