Word: taxicabbing
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...background. Spectators will await, without fear of disappointment, the moment when the bridegroom leads the girl into a mansion, and in answer to her awed question as to who owns this splendid place, explains that he has bought it for her! Best shots: Leading Man James Hall buying a taxicab; Miss Banky showing him the furnished rooms she has rented as their future home; a subway...
...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph J. Eller and two assistants descended from a taxicab at the Post Graduate Hospital. A few minutes later they discovered that a small black satchel containing 500 milligrams ($30,000 worth) of radium had been left in the cab, each man having thought that another had it. Word was sent to all the newspapers warning the finder to ware burning himself. Next morning a restaurateur a few blocks from the hospital reported discovering the bag under a table in his restaurant. Its intervening experiences were unknown...
Anne Forrest, actress, about to open in Manhattan in Carnival, was last week hospitalized in Hartford, Conn. Cause: a limousine-taxicab collision. Said she: "I'd rather have had my arms and legs broken than have this happen to my face...
Executive Offices. Stepping hopefully from his taxicab, a Job-Seeker enters a square yellow-walled lobby. Ahead of him he sees a fireplace (but never, during the Coolidge Era, a fire). A White House guard directs him up a corridor leading off the right side of the lobby. He is eyed as he advances by a Secret Service man seated or lounging at the corridor's end. Across from this sentinel sits a watchdog, Doorman Pat McKenna. Credentials are inspected and the Job-Seeker is shown through a heavy white door into the President's No. 1 Secretary...
...dusk one evening in 1920 a taxicab rolled up to Jackson Barnett's door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...