Word: taxicabbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Divorced. By Myrna Loy, 39, "the perfect screen wife": John D. Hertz Jr., 36, Manhattan advertising executive and taxicab heir; after two years; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grounds: incompatibility...
...significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
...acute appendix operation in 1921. Ten years later a New York taxicab knocked him down, gave him lacerations and pleurisy. He recovered with the aid of 3,000 units of anti-tetanus serum. Only ten months ago he had another attack of pneumonia...
Once, at least, OWI has been glad to fall back on deliberate double talk. That was when a bewildered Australian asked what double talk was. OWI dug up a fluent Bronx taxicab driver named Elmer Zittenfeld. Elmer explained that he was about to show the English how to wriggle out of losing a political argument. Said he: "Well, the way I see it is this. If President Roosevelt refuses to greetscong the mendefresh on lend-lease, the Treasury Department will be forced to reconstram all war bonds issued since the 18th of frammish. On the other hand, if you analyze...
...middle years, Helleu maintained a small yacht, aboard which he used to receive the neurasthenic Marcel Proust, transported at night from Paris to the sea in a favorite taxicab. Helleu is said to have been, in part, the inspiration for the painter Elstir in Proust's great A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Helleu often visited the U.S., saw much of the Francophile architect Whitney Warren. Warren got Helleu to design the starry blue heavens which can still be seen, faded and streaked, on the main ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...