Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the ceremony, Countess Schuschnigg told friends that the days of toasts were over. She and her husband, she said, were poor. To save a few marks, she had moved her trunks and household chattels in a taxi to their new, modest, downtown apartment. When she would be joined there by her husband, only the Gestapo knew...
...hours later in London's Paddington station, the newlyweds ran a gantlet of the press. Their taxi was followed into Hyde Park by cabs full of newshawks, shouting questions. Finally the Secretary of the Interior stopped his cab, got out, stormed: "Are these newspaper men's manners...
...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...
...late, and chord by chord the booming of the bell-batteries is being silenced. The taxi has found a new perch at the corner, ready to pounce out at the customer's slightest beckoning. Packard, Pierce, Lincoln, and Buick have sought refuge a block away, their white tires carefully left an inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women...
...Cannibal Carnival" was written by a London taxi driver, Herbert Hodges A farce on current events in the political and social world, the play is notable for its leftist leaning in addition to considerable frankness. The Faculty advisory committee to the Dramatic Club were favorably impressed by the play when submitted to them. Harvard Dean's office also expressed its approval...