Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the first thing one sees in New York,--and the last--is a taxi. The swarms of these bright-colored public machines have well-nigh squeezed all private cars from the down-town sections. But the enterprise of New York taxi magnates is not confined to the narrow limits of Manhattan. One of them proposes to speed up London traffic with a shipment of five hundred yellow cabs, and the London press has had no end of fun discussing the impending "yellow peril...
...Yellow Taxi has reached London! The Daily Mail, in an unkind editorial entitled Taxicabs from Chicago-500, All Yellow, said: "There has arrived in London from the United States a man who is seeking to launch on the already congested streets of London 500 Chicago-built taxicabs. He is Mr. Schultz of the company which makes the Yellow cabs that run in the streets of Chicago. Mr. Schultz is to be followed to this country by three specimens of Yellow cabs that from reasons of price offer a big inducement to British buyers...
...arrival of the yellow taxi-peril in London...
...Lynch, champion bantamweight boxer of the world, had agreed to risk his title against Joe Burman, Chicagoan. The day before the fight, Lynch reported himself disabled. Asked how that happened, he stated that in stepping from a taxi his feet had become entangled with his pet collie, he had lost his equilibrium, collapsed upon the sidewalk, arisen with a subglenoid dislocation of the shoulder...
...start printing on yellow paper?" but when night came with all the terrors of darkness, these same ones, anxiously tested the strength of their rope fire-escapes. And this is not strange, considering the scare headlines in yesterday's CRIMSON, for the prospect of being thrown from a curtained taxi-cab into the Waldrof after being treated with tar and feathers is far from pleasant...