Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assorted group of New York youngsters (aged 10 to 15) who had studied in the Saturday art classes of Greenwich Village's pioneering Little Red School House. Chosen for outstanding talent from New York's public and parochial schools, these children were sons and daughters of taxi drivers, shoemakers, waiters, ranged in race and nationality from Chinese, Polish and Syrian to Harlem Negro and plain U.S. Anglo-Saxon. Their pictures crawled and bubbled with youthful gusto. They also showed a keen sense of observation, and the painstaking craftsmanship that results from purposeful intention rather than youthful accident...
...driving along Florida Avenue when the sky suddenly darkened and rain poured down. It was a cloudburst that turned the afternoon into night. Jarvis had on a chauffeur's cap. Jessie Strieff thought he was a taxi driver and she called to him and jumped in his car. Jarvis smiled politely. The avenue was deserted. Everyone had run to cover to get out of the deluge. Half an hour later Jarvis left the girl's nude body in a nearby garage, drove...
...after traveling for 15 years in these countries, that 90% of the North Americans here are very popular in Latin-American brothels, and enjoy a wonderful reputation among bootblacks and taxi drivers, but for the largest percentage of us Latin Americans -they certainly make very lousy neighbors. We could certainly sleep well without them...
...Lady helped San Francisco be what many a citizen wanted it to be-a wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...
Whether she is jitterbugging with gangling Roy Lester (see cut), her "waltzing mouse," or paying off an insistent suitor ("Listen, tall, dark and bad-mannered!"), Maisie The Taxi Dancer is delightful to look at. One part Jean Harlow, one part Mae West, she is an honest and fetching carbon copy of a type of U.S. female to be found at Coney Island on any hot summer Sunday...