Word: taximan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London cabby is a very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...
...your issue of Feb. 19 under Medicine, you publish an article about a man who asked a taxi driver to take him to Bellevue Hospital; the refusal of the nurse on duty to admit the man unless accompanied by a policeman, in spite of the fact that the taximan informed her that the man was apparently dying; the drive to a police station on the later advice of a policeman; and the death of the taximan's passenger before an ambulance came to the police station...
...seemed a little unsteady on his feet, but Taximan John Forney thought nothing of that. At night in Manhattan lots of people are unsteady on their feet. The man hailed Forney near Ninety-Sixth Street and climbed into his cab. He asked hoarsely to be taken to Bellevue. Forney changed his mind, then. Bellevue, the grim collection of buildings where innumerable sordid little dramas of the city have ended, is perhaps the most famed municipal hospital in the U. S. Many drunks are taken there, but they seldom go voluntarily. Forney decided there was something else wrong with his fare...