Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxi to Sweden's Royal Palace last week drove Mr. & Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Lord High Chamberlain, Baron Rude-beck, and the First Lady in Waiting, Countess Lewenhaupt led them into an antechamber abuzz with guests. After a pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel...
...make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated...
...Manhattan, Alex Fuerstein, taxi driver, objected because he had been arrested for parking in front of a speakeasy. Said he: "But Your Honor, where can I park in this town and not be in front of a speakeasy?" He was fined...
...just trying to get rid of us....they think we're cockeyed....closing indeed, why it's only....well perhaps....the Somerset....a good idea....hey, my hat,....no....no....don't....it isn't that kind....hey....oh well, it was getting sort of furry looking anyway....hey taxi...
...this on the floor?....and who's this in the bathtub? and in the fireplace?....the day after Gettysburg....who got in a fight?....he did?....well he was stewed....I know because I saw him....serves him right....oh, so he went to jail too?....for driving a taxi around the Yard at six this morning?....with the cornet player from the Somerset band?....serves them both right....I will not....I haven't enough money....ball comes high around here....I won't do it....he has all our tickets?....omigod....ask the janitor...