Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unionized (Chicago Yellow drivers are not); the drivers must prowl around Chicago for fares. Checker drivers as individuals have fought the Yellow drivers as clansmen and as scabs; soon forgetting their business rivalry, the chauffeurs fought for love of fighting and out of the hatred which is bred in taxicab drivers by the rigors of their profession. They turned at each quickly in their cars, driving them as Hector drove his chariot; they bombed garages and used guns, like gangsters...
...Thomas Esmonde and his Lady Anna Frances delayed the sailing of the Cedric for eight minutes, because they had forgotten some jewels as ancient as King Charles II. A taxicab race was a feature of the recovery...
Nominee Robinson, bound for Albany, whirled in an automobile through a narrow one-way street in Hastings, N. Y. Around a corner, going the wrong way, appeared a taxicab. Voices shouted, brakes screamed, the cars stopped without crashing, no one was hurt...
Cinemactress Bebe Daniels flew from Hollywood to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. At every stop the local papers noted her. Finally she left her purse in the taxicab which carried her the 30 miles from Hadley Field to Manhattan. The purse contained $168 and feminine gimcracks. Whether or not Miss Daniels left the purse deliberately, the ensuing publicity was worth many, many times $168. And the taxidriver returned the money...
...Iron Gustave" Hartmann, cabby, who drove his ancient horse and cab on a "goodwill" jaunt to Paris (TIME,, June 18) returned to Berlin last week, lolling in a taxicab presented to him by Opel Motor Co. Old friends of horsey days, vexed, were restrained by police from mobbing...