Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dorothy Gish 1,004 Lillian Gish 36,967 George W. Goethals 2,719 Prank Jay Gould 196,813 E. H. R. Green (son of Hetty).... 222,712 Walter Hampden 2,718 Will Hays 10,234 Howard Heintz 191,374 Myron T. Herreck 6,929 John Hertz (Yellow Taxi) 8,316 Mrs. John Hertz 5,215 Alanson B. Houghton 32,404 Charles E. Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden...
...Life's Battles, a chatty autobiography by Will Thorne, horney-handed M. P. of the Labor Party, was published in London last week. Mr. Thorne treats his reminiscences like fine liqueurs, slowly sipped. He remembers how he, frowsily dressed astounded a taxi-driver by directing: "Buckingham Palace"; how he said to Lord Stamfordham (the King's Secretary) : "I have been led to understand one has to do a lot of bowing and scraping;" how Lord Stamfordham told him he was mistaken; how his preconception of the King was indeed mistaken...
...Kiss in a Taxi. A. H. Woods originally called this play The Five O'Clock Man, an almost literal transcription from the Paris title. Five O'Clock men, it seems, are men who have ladies on the side to whom they dedicate their later afternoons. This lady happened to turn up in this five o'clock man's own home where, very properly, his wife was living. If you have been much to French farce, or indeed if you haven't, you can probably call most of the author's shots. Yet you cannot...
...several weeks demanding 100 francs a month more pay (they have been getting 500 and 600 francs a month), a 24-hour general strike was called. Everything in industry and transportation stopped dead. Firemen, and gas and electric workers were the chief officials. The only opportunity to ride by taxi, streetcar or bus, was in a funeral cortege, for funeral coaches were exempted. Postmen, musicians and many waiters took part in the suspension...
...disrobing ceased. Soon the Rev. and Mrs. Chervinsky, and the faithful howler Oleg were departing by taxi into obscurity...