Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, the taxicab drivers are wild and rapacious; they drive fast and they frighten old ladies, by sneering, into paying them exorbitant prices. As a result they are not popular among women; one taxi-driver in Paris, a mild though bearded fellow, posted last week this notice on his cab: "Wanted: a wife. I want to marry. 1 own this cab. The girl must be well...
...three plays as it was announced last night is as follows: Les Precieuses Ridicules Mascarille W. A. C. Miller '32 Jodelet E. S. Fetcher '31 La Grange W. D. Carter '31 Du Croisy E. C. Carter '31 Gorgibus F. G. Shaw '31 Almanzor S. R. Johnson '30 Chauffeur de Taxi J. S. B. Archer '31 Madelon Miss Nancy Crocker Cathos Isabella Grandin L'Intruse L'Ariul W. B. Cowen Jr. '29 Le Pere W. D. Carter '31 L'Oncle E. S. Fetcher '31 La Jeune Fille Amee Beatrice Clough La Jeune Fille Cadette Helen Streeter Gringoire Louis...
...Manhattan. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, famed for her Wagner, hurried in a taxi toward the Waldorf-Astoria where she was to sing for 1,000 clubwomen. Clubwomen waited but Singer Kappel's cab had crashed into another, she had been thrown from the seat, jounced on the floor. Thirty-five minutes later she entered the Waldorf ballroom. Bruised, she sang...
Then, balancing a limp-plumed bonnet, in stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak...
Americana. The U. S. has many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter, it would appear, are business conventions, talkies, the beds in railroad cars, Chicago schools, the faces of taxi-drivers, women temperance addicts, Will Hays, subways, Roxy's cinemansion, and Gene Tunney. All of these, J. P. McEvoy, who wrote Show Girl, snubs with villainous though somewhat protracted gaiety in this speedy second edition of his famed revue...