Word: taxicabs
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...before the Gare du Nord, some prosperous, more poor, nearly all bearing bouquets of flowers. Stalwart youths of Les Camelots du Roi, or Royalist League, formed a guard of honor, drawn up in double file, eyes front, facing a lane which extended from the railway platform to a waiting taxicab-a very special cab. With sheepish smiles and shrugs policemen representing the majesty of the French Republic kept at a respectful distance. They would have been mobbed if they had interfered. "Vive la France!" roared the crowd. "La France royale et immortelle! Vive le Roi! Vive le Dauphin!" and then...
...pleasure to chat with them. Amos said that he had been at Harvard for military training at the time of the war. They claim that in their dialogues, which have been doubling-up the United States with laughter nightly in their well-known series broadcast entitled. "The Fresh Air Taxicab Company Incorporated" they do not use what is popularly termed "wisecracks". On the contrary, they have a definite theory that the basis of real humor is in the representation of humorous situations handled with a philosophical touch...
...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
...strikers one E. F. Foster presented a petition asking for the repeal of the taxicab ordinance. He said 50,000 names were signed...
...last week journeyed the four U. S. members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street...