Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other women saw her put it on the pile and jumped all over her. Said that was no way to give aluminum to the Government, and she must keep some house if her pots were that black. The woman didn't answer back, but just got in a taxi and rode away...
Objection was once made to the high literary content of the questionees' responses. Insisted a superior: "That taxi driver you ran this morning looks straight out of Sing Sing and you have him talking like Nicholas Murray Butler. Just put the words down as they come out of their mouths." Jimmy obeyed, not sparing a single dese, dem or dose. Posses of furious questionees stormed the News, and the management frantically ordered Jimmy back to word-painting...
...from typhoid and cholera inoculations, but bubbling with enthusiasm at the prospect of the toughest job of a tough career, rawboned, hulking, strikebreaking Dan Arnstein was en route from San Francisco to China. Product of the violence of Chicago's stockyard district, a onetime professional football player, a taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever...
...most important posts on the world democratic front: the reorganization of trucking on the Burma Road. Dan Arnstein and two associates, M. F. Hellman and H. C. Davis, set off to take over. Mr. Arnstein's chief regret: that he could not take his taxi drivers with him to Burma. Moaned he: "Half the boys wanted to quit and go with me; the boys don't want to get paid for it-all they want is excitement...
Jesse Jones got tired of electric shocks in his office, put rubber bonnets on all his doorknobs. >> An airport cab starter threatened to knock Fiorello H. LaGuardia's block off when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line. Fiorello offered to lick any three taxi drivers, was led off gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came...