Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night after night the bombers came, morning after morning London went to work redeyed. But London remained on the whole good-natured. The Times's bridge correspondent complained a bit that the raids were "having a serious effect on bridge." But a taxicab driver inserted an advertisement in the Times's personal column apologizing for losing his temper during a raid...
...loved it so well that he stayed on to write the first of his 15 books, The Land of Haunted Castles. No alarmist is he. Last autumn, when Paris correspondents were worrying about German concentrations opposite Luxembourg, Reporter Casey coolly tooled through the German lines in a taxicab. Last week he had this...
...pork chop, and then God help all women!" Much more blandly she told bald Playwright Marc Connelly that she hadn't recognized him right off because he was wearing his hair a new way. She could meet any situation. One day, when her dog misbehaved in a taxicab, the driver let off a stream of profanity. Stella Campbell stared coldly at him, drawled, "Young man, that was me." She always did as she pleased. She was reputedly the first woman ever to smoke in public in the U. S. She demanded $25 for newspaper interviews...
There is a 20% tax on everything in Spain, including taxicab fares. Two-thirds of this goes to Government relief, one-third to the Army. Since last August the Government requires each family to present a budget for inspection. There is little metal currency in circulation in Spain; for change of less than one peseta, postage stamps are used...
...Aline Davis Fleisher Hays, wife of Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays, seven members of the League of Women Shoppers, wearing evening wraps, jewels and orchids, emerged from a taxicab to relieve A. F. of L. pickets in front of Manhattan's Brass Rail, theatrical district restaurant. The proprietor tempted them with champagne, was spurned. Five blocks away, William Green, president of A. F. of L., crossed an A. F. of L. picket line to get into the Hotel Lincoln to check...