Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game hunter in pith helmet, khaki shorts and orange jacket stalked along the railroad platform. His prey: Princeton men, Class of 1925. His quarry was expressed by jeep or taxi to class headquarters-in a vacant lot on University Place, decked out now like a carnival site...
After a month of hide-&-seek, Mrs. Durant was traced to the home of her sister in Hudson, Wis. MPs surrounded the house but Mrs. Durant slipped out the back door, fled by taxi and train to Chicago. She met her husband, and at 5 p.m. on June 2 both registered at the La Salle Hotel. At 2 a.m., just 46 hours before fire crisped their third-floor room (see Disaster), MPs awakened them. Hours later they confessed...
...bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
Pedro Leão Velloso, bald Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council, was taken to Manhattan's bosom with a vengeance: a taxi bearing him down Park Avenue slambanged into another, knocked him off his seat. Next day at the council meeting, Delegate Velloso sported court plasters on brow and beak...
Famous vacation trains, like the Cornish Riviera Express (nonstop London to Plymouth) and the Golden Arrow (London to Dover and Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government...