Word: taxicabs
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...Coppins, 19, died after hiccoughing for long and frequent intervals for more than a year. Last June when the American Medical Association met at Detroit, 5,000 physicians filed into Miss Coppins' room to view the phenomenon, could not help her. A man drove from Cleveland by taxicab with a useless "cure." Heart failure caused by the long hiccoughing was the eventual cause of her death...
...comedy is furnished chiefly by Willie Howard, a pathetic-looking Levantine, who, having driven Mr. Kearns out West in his taxicab, is elected sheriff and spends most of his time disguised as an Indian to elude the tough hombres...
...court the ride-stealer, William Cummings of Norfolk, Va., said: "I'm secretary of the Norfolk Railway Co. and I wanted to see whether it would be easy to avoid paying a fare on the New York subway line." He was fined $3, rode off in a taxicab...
...fair on Monday, when legions of urchins rush forth with bundles of the week's edition, leaping from running board to running board of cabs in the city's traffic jam. In 1928 Taxi Weekly gave birth to a national edition, addressed to all U. S. taxicab companies, now reaching 4,000 readers...
...Bengal river port on the other side of India, a well organized band of armed raiders swept down on the town at nightfall, cut all telegraph wires, gutted the police armories and telephone building, fled to the hills. Seven were killed: two Europeans, two native police, three innocent-bystanding taxicab drivers...