Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with tragedy that few have to endure. On a trip to New York in 1960 to do a small part in Breakfast at Tiffany's, she brought her three small children with her. The youngest, Theo, was being wheeled across upper Madison Avenue in his carriage when a taxi went through a red light, hit the carriage, and carried it into the rear...
...great sorrow, the double-breasted suit has disappeared. Sartorial sociologists blame this on the trend toward informality. "They always had to be buttoned. If you walk around in an unbuttoned double-breasted, you look like a taxi with all the doors open," explains Irwin Grossman, vice president of Manhattan's Groshire-Austin Leeds...
...dictionary's first definition is "a slovenly woman; a slattern," and that's the one the Observer's Whitehorn also likes. She asks: "Have you ever taken anything out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? Changed stockings in a taxi? Could you try on clothes in any shop, any time, without worrying about your underclothes? How many things are in the wrong room-cups in the study, boots in the kitchen?" The right answers, says Whitehorn, make "you one of us: the miserable, optimistic, misunderstood race of sluts...
...taxi driver, Darry Click, took Oswald home, where he changed his clothes...
Oswald, it is alleged, eventually le bus after riding about six blocks and was walking "from Commerce Street" when the taxicab driver, now named "William Whaley" saw him. Oswald, it is alleged, hailed the taxi, and entered it. "William Whaley's" log shows that Oswald entered the taxi, after having completed this entire trip, at exactly 12:30 p.m. The shots that killed Kennedy were fired...