Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the efforts of the Harvard Liberal Club, the Harvard Tani Company has agreed net to carry any more strike breakers to and from the A. N. Hyde Company, Cambridge she manufacturers. Since none of the other taxi companies of damage to their cars the Liberal Club feels that he efforts will be of material aid to the strikers...
Outside the inn, the taxi which had brought the old man from nearby Locust Valley rattled away hesitatingly. The driver was wondering where he had seen his passenger before. Was it in Locust Valley? Was it in the newspapers? When he got home next morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where...
...pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian charges shows her efficient even in love. Manhattan Taxi-driver Ernie calls it an uneventful day after 16 hours of crowded life. Wifely Muriel spoils her husband's would-be romantic trip to Mexico by tagging along. Linny, all alone in Manhattan Sunday after Sunday, finally gives a friendly answer to the pimply corner lounger...
...thrown to the Cabinet. On the day following an emissary told Thomas the Squire would like to see him. Thomas did not hurry. On the second day a Senator told Thomas the President would be glad to have a chat with him. Thomas did not run for a taxi. On the third day Senator Joe Robinson went to Thomas and said he had been directed to accompany the Senior Senator from Oklahoma to the White House. Thomas went and stayed all afternoon. . . . . . . Educated for the law, Thomas practiced not at all in Oklahoma-developed a summer resort at Medicine Park...
...story, as everyone knows, tells what happens when a Habsburg archduke turned taxi-driver meets his former mistress at a party given for the fallen nobility in Frau Lucher's Viennese hotel. It takes one night and several bottles of brandy to make the archduke suspect that perhaps changing circumstance has made him less a Habsburg than a cabby in fancy dress; and to convince the mistress that her psychiatrist husband may not be taking his patients' fees under false pretences. As in many good comedies, it is the attenuated tragedy under the surface of Reunion in Vienna...