Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing in her discoveries "changed the picture of the man I knew, but fresh aspects came to light." They came from Chesterton's taxi drivers, barbers, secretaries, neighbors, and companions of childhood. Loosely strung together as they are, these reminiscences do not, of course, add up to a portrait of the artist. Indeed, most of them give so fantastic an impression of G.K. that, from this book alone, he would seem to have been hardly more than a remarkably likable lunatic...
...most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
...series of 20 lectures on "political literature" which Calosso is delivering at the University of Rome, a pro-Fascist student released a stink-bomb in the classroom, while others cried out: "You helped us lose the war!" Next day, as Calosso waited on a street corner for a taxi, another student stepped up and emptied a can of red paint over his head. To top it all, police stopped a girl entering Calosso's classroom with a box full of angry hornets...
...that the former Mrs. Adlai Stevenson was a member of the Borden milk family. I believe that her father was John Borden, former taxi magnate and no relation to the Borden milk family...
...Rochester, its first stop, the sleek two-engined Convair was eight minutes late. At Syracuse the snow was heavier and Pilot Thomas J. Reid landed a half hour behind schedule, late enough for Barbara Levy, Syracuse University sophomore. She had kept a taxi standing by while she finished a mid-term exam, had rushed to the Syracuse field to get a quick start on a winter vacation...