Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troop of Rumanian soldiers held Jimbola, and Army discipline was decisive. The soldiers stopped the taxi gunmen and the pursuing locomotive. Scared Carol got over the border into Yugoslavia with some 30 of his palace clique. He took with him in freight cars attached to the royal train three handsome motor cars and 30 truckloads of valuables...
...Taxi Bronx Taxi Driver John Crowe got into an altercation with Patrolman Filomeo Saviola, was promptly jailed for disorderly conduct. He won a suspended sentence by signing a pledge: "I apologize to this police officer and promise that never again in my life will I commit a similar offense-that is, calling policemen screwballs...
...Westrick, who had made the mistake of trying to conceal his identity and whereabouts (apparently for the honest reason that he was harassed by telephone calls from angry anti-Nazis), hurried to Manhattan's motor vehicle bureau (in a taxi) to explain his license applications. He denied that he had lost a leg in World War I, admitted he had lost a foot. He denied that he had told a falsehood in naming an engineer of Texas Corp. (his client) as his employer, but admitted he had failed to notify the bureau when he moved to Scarsdale. He also...
...began to speak. Vice-Presidential revolt had cut his audience-it was 1:20 E. D. S. T. in New York; 10:20 in Denver; 9:20 in the Pacific Coast cities. It was the nocturnal life of the U. S. that caught his words and their intonation-the taxi drivers, the sleepless passengers in deluxe trains, the patrons of bars and restaurants-most workmen and farmers were long since asleep...
...came involuntarily. One after noon last week stenographers in Paris' Champs-Elysees heard sudden machine-gun fire, rushed to windows in time to see what they thought were German parachutists plummeting to earth from a plane over suburban Neuilly. In the street reporters found police with revolvers drawn, taxi drivers set to speed to the exact spot of the landing, Defense Passive trucks al ready roaring off to the west...