Word: taxicabbing
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Late one afternoon last week a sleek grey taxicab purred up to the Army Building in downtown Manhattan and out of it stepped a youth named Fiore Rizzo. Out also stepped three other young men. The taxi meter registered 65?. The four passengers had only 50? between them...
...leave jail, ready to forget her dishonest husband who implicated her in the old badger game. She is free, with five dollars in her pocketbook. Three dollars and sixty-five cents for train fare and a few days in the big city. Broke, A rainy night. Into a taxicab for shelter. The driver takes her to his room. But he does not trust pick-ups. Takes his money out of the bureau ready to go to a friend's room for the night. Takes another look at her. Thinks she is pretty nice. Heavy rain drops tattoo the window panes...
...Hoover told her that she had had government photographers taking pictures of every room in the house. Likewise all White House furniture has been card-indexed, with a notation as to the history of each piece. The inspection over within an hour, Mrs. Roosevelt walked out, took a 20? taxicab ride back to her hotel...
...Negroes stepped up, demanded the payroll. Met with resistance, they shot the two white men down, vanished in a taxicab whose license number startled spectators in windows across the street failed to note. Paymaster Ecklund died instantly. Paymaster Stumm was rushed to a hospital, a bullet under his heart, the payroll still in his pocket...
...bullets in his chest, one in his back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...