Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objecting to the principle behind the Harvard denizens' actions. But they should have known better. Live and let live. Did the Yale Record attempt to have the Harvard Lampoon punished for stealing the fence? Aren't we all the victims at times of the exorbitancy of bootleggers, ticket brokers, taxi drivers and, I well remember, stock markets? No doubt Yale is now laughing heartily at Harvard's expense...
...Museum discovered that most visitors were housewives, that more stenographers visited than artists, that 28,000 arrived by private car, 32,000 by taxi. The majority came because "someone told them about it." The favorite room in the Museum was the Pennsylvania German* Hall and next the German bedroom. English paintings attracted 79.000; only 10,000 got any reaction from Oriental rugs...
...second time in as many years, water transportation will play a considerable part in bringing spectators to the Harvard-Yale game. The water taxi service of one marine company has already received reservations for its boats, and it will offer a complete service. The speedboats plan to receive their passengers on Fort Point channel, dash up into the Charles River Basin, and land the rooters right on the Stadium grounds...
...40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss in a Taxi, Lovers in Quarantine, Senorita), embodied a gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels had a good time and seldom took a holiday. She was engaged to Charles ("Fastest Human") Paddock, but called it off. One winter there was a popular song called "Bebe, Be Mine" and even now when she goes...
...name Mitten is more famed than that of any other in the realm of intra-city transportation. In Philadelphia, Mitten Management Inc. operates all buses, street cars, subways, elevateds, and many a taxi. Last week President Thomas Eugene Mitten died (see p. 54). Famed in life, he became more famed dead. His buses, street cars, subways, elevateds, taxis bore the sombre legend OUR CHIEF, T. E. MITTEN, 1864-1929. Soon after, his motormen, busmen, taxi drivers learned that most of the Mitten millions (variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000) were to be left in trust...