Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times-in his home, on his walks, even wearing the cap of a Manhattan taxi driver...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
...wheel will roll," was the chesty prediction. Mighty John L. Lewis and the grabbag District 50 of the United Mine Workers had gone to the big city: they were going to take over New York City's 36,000 hackies and mechanics, and force union recognition from the taxi owners. They might even get more money...
This indigestible lump of melodrama is leavened now & again by a stretch of slapstick which is equally unreal. The only real moments, in fact, are provided by Gloria Grahame, who proves once again, as she did by her performance as the sullen taxi dancer in Crossfire, that she can be one of Hollywood's most convincing chippies...
Along the swarming Pearl River Bund flashed U.S.-patterned advertisements using scantily clad, busty female forms to sell everything from cosmetics to waterproof wristwatches. Farther uptown, smartly dressed taxi dancers helped tired Chinese and foreign businessmen while away their evenings at California-style restaurants and cabarets to the strains of Rum Boogie and Springtime in the Rockies...