Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their taxi fare. He said that the cooks and maids who boycott the buses "are fighting to destroy our social fabric just as much as the Negro radicals who are leading them. The Negroes are laughing at white people behind their backs . . . They think it's very funny and amusing that...
...Moravia, is a cheerful bit of babble, a tolerant spoof of the great game of guardie e ladri (cops and robbers), which many Italians play with a good-natured gusto all their lives. Sophia, the daughter of a prominent pickpocket (Vittorio De Sica), conies hippety-hipping up to a taxi one day with a couple of boy friends. They ask the driver (Roberto Mastroianni) to head for the beach. On the way, Sophia keeps breathing down the cabby's neck and crooning Bongo Bongo Bongo in his ear. At the beach he waits while she takes a swim...
Your article quoting Gov. Collins-"Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture"-brings to mind a conversation with a Florida taxi driver. He said, "Florida has three assets. Oranges. Alligators. Tourists. And by gosh, we skin...
...West Berlin, on the tenth anniversary of the attempt on Hitler's life, John met with a bunch of his old "resistance" pals to celebrate. Later that night he had taken a taxi to the house of Dr. Wolfgang ("Wowo") Wohlgemuth, an old friend-as well as a suspected Communist. Together they had been seen driving into East Berlin...
...Eugenie for $20. She was given a sulfa treatment for her spear wound and nursed back to health (on a diet of clams and cucumbers) in a local swimming pool. No available aircraft could carry a tankful of water big enough to enclose a sea-elephant, but since the taxi ride proved that Eugenie could live out of water, Dr. Harry decided to fly her home on an air mattress...