Word: taxicabbing
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...London, taxicab No. Y L 6636 supplies two services, unique in the world, its driver, William Lucas, modestly believes: 1) a clock that works; 2) free cigarets and matches. Old Mr. Lucas states that his clients never take more than two cigarets a trip. Cigarets are changed daily, each day a new brand. A tobacco firm asked the driver if he would use their brand as an advertisement; was refused...
Soon Senators began to straggle in-some in evening clothes, some with their morning ties askew, some unshaven, many vexed. Senator Hawes of Missouri said that his taxicab had caught on fire, that he had to call a fire engine. Senator Willis of Ohio said that he saw the flag floating over the Senate wing of the Capitol (denoting that the Senate is in session) and so he hurried from the Union Station. Vexed, Senator Reed of Missouri rushed down the aisle, shouted: "This is an inexcusable outrage...
...organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
This they did to protest a bill now before Parliament which would grant to a British firm monopoly for 60 years of Athenian taxicab and bus business. Should the bill pass, nearly all the taxicabs and busses now running in Athens would have to be scrapped or shipped elsewhere, for 75% are of U. S. manufacture, with Italian and French makes next, and British firms scarcely represented...
...debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled, saxophones clucked and gurgled during 16 scenes. A "Jane" (stenographer) is seduced by a "Guy," is married by a "Bookkeeper," is kept by a "Sugar Daddy." She shoots a taxicab driver and misbehaves generally. That is the way Author Francis Edwards Faragoh, Hungarian by birth, sees Greater New York. His Pinwheel sputters, squawks, dies like a skyrocket that never left the ground...