Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night a shivering taxi-driver sat at his stand reading an early edition of next morning's newspaper. He read of the Archbishop's loss, of the value of the crucifix. Therefore he drove to the Archbishop's house, handed over the valise with contents undisturbed, explained that he had seen the bag on the curb, had been unable to overtake the Archbishop's automobile, departed without leaving his name...
...despatch from Bucharest, last week, told that Prince-Regent Nicholas of Rumania had forcibly arrested a truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...
Popular. Two other folk tales about President Coolidge came out during the week. One tale was that, when asked what he would do after retiring to Vermont, he replied: "Well, for a year or two I am going to whittle." The other tale: A taxi-driver drew up at the White House with an inquiring look. The President, just coming out, nodded. Off his seat leaped the taxi-driver and opened his taxi door. President Coolidge paid no heed. A detective told the taximan that the President's nod had merely been a greeting, not a summons.. . . Next...
...aged man with dark hair and a well-trimmed Van Dyke beard, "but your kind of Crimson isn't on the sex I prefer to see wearing it." In such a manner Will Durant, noted American philosopher, laughingly started conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last evening while in a taxi on the way to Symphony Hall to debate with Bertrand Russell...
...days later, after some good grouse shooting over Scottish moors, King Boris became Count Rilski, returned to London. Arriving there, he took a taxi to his hotel, paid a visit to the legation, which did not even know that he was in England. Then it became known that the incognito monarch was much more interested in collecting butterflies for his remarkable collection in Sofia-a collection given to him by "Foxy" Ferdinand, onetime (1908-18) King of Bulgaria-than he was in discovering a royal bride. And next in his interests were motor cars and steam locomotives, of both...