Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ragged entertainment called The Undercurrent. He plays the part of an irascible old mine owner who won't increase his miners' wages, refuses to let his daughter marry the man she loves. A little past the middle of the play, he is hit on the head in a taxi smash. He suddenly changes places? mentally?with the miners and the girl. Coming out of this strange cerebral revolution, his nature shifts. The miners get their money and the girl her man. The play is not recommended...
...where he dashed to a train which took him to Rome. At Rome, he dashed to the Vatican, paid his respects to Il Papa, saw many Italian notables, was interviewed by many journalists. Next day, he dashed from his hotel, bumped along the cobblestones of Rome in a rickety taxi. At the station, he boarded a train which rushed him to Naples. At Naples, he shot up a gangplank on to a ship which started to propel him to the east coast of South America where once again he will entrain and return triumphant to his native land...
...wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without precedent" (The New York Times) ; "A relatively obscure singer who walked away with the chief honors" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; "An eager young man, who made music history when the brilliant audience lost control...
...example, when the American 400 yard relay team smashed a world record once, and then topped its own record a short time later; nor did I see, during the whole time I was in Paris, any sign of hostility or even of impatience (except, of course for the taxi bandits and their tips...
Having business in Westminster, the clergyman takes a taxi. The lions of Trafalgar Square jolt by: "Like other ideals, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy." Looms the House of Parliament: "The corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey...