Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack Dempsey. Now his life is free and easy; he looks the white folks over as they pass through the door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited for the taxi to move along. Its driver, one Edward Cohen, seemed inclined to loiter, to dawdle. "Hump yo'self, Jew boy," said Doorman Johnson...
Excise Taxes. Groups from several industries asked for abolition of the taxes on the things which they produced?automobiles, f i r e a r ms, cameras, jewelry, etc. The taxicab drivers wanted their $10 tax abolished; the motorboat and yacht builders wanted the tax on motorboat users removed...
...Lespinasse, protesting that he had received "entirely too much publicity" from his services to Mr. McCormick, issued nevertheless some statements. The price of parts, he said, was coming down. When asked what parts he referred to, he made it clear that he meant the parts of that curious taxicab of the soul, the human body. He foresaw the day, he intimated, when parts would be obtainable at standard prices from agencies in most large towns and service stations along the highways. In the minds of his listeners arose the vision of hilarious advertisements offering for rent quaint objects "slightly used...
That curious taxicab of the soul...
...gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab and disappeared again into the places where he disappears...