Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before post time Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station was so jammed that the Long Island R.R. rolled out some 13 "relief" (not to be confused with special) trains. Thousands more railbirds went by subway, bus, taxi and private cars whose owners left them in side streets or paid $4 to park in back yards. It was one of the biggest opening days in Jamaica's history; attendance, 26.424 (almost twice as many as last year); betting total, a record...
Later, as helicopter engineering develops, air passengers may be carried on local helicopter-taxi hops from downtown districts to outlying airports and suburban areas...
Agreeable Creatures. Sir Thomas lives in a baronial Manhattan duplex with Tudor interiors, leaves it occasionally for walks in nearby Central Park. On warm days he sometimes has a taxi follow him with his overcoat. He smokes continuously, preferring light Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York...
With Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in the leading roles, and others like Perey Kilbridge, the witty Yankee taxi driver, Frank Craven and Richard Whorf supporting them, the entire cast turns in a collectively good job of acting. The picture starts with the death of Robert Forest, a prominent and well loved politician, soldier, and public benefactor who turns out to be an enemy agent. Tracy, an admiring newspaper man back from the world battlefronts, dedicates himself to writing the story of Forest's life. He encounters Katharine Hephurn, Forest's wife, and in the process of investigation discovers that...
Some R.A.F. expressions wander into wondrous double talk. Example: "Can I get a taxi?" asked the American outside the Savoy. "You've had it," said the R.A.F. flyer, i.e., "You haven...