Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed to have been students of the University. In front of the Harvard Trust, attracted a crowd. Patrolman Murphy, on duty at the Square, intervened, and started to lead the men away. The crowd followed the officer, and in a good natured manner, interfered with the arrest. The taxi which the officer commandeered, was first held up, and later pushed to the sidewalk...
...Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, each day last week flocked hundreds of businessmen, clerks, sports, idlers, professional men, New Yorkers, out-of-towners, taxi drivers, foreigners and not a few thugmen, national and international celebrities, blackamoors and sailors, some with their ladies, some in groups, most of them talking animatedly, all of them peering, prying, pushing and querying, and some of them buying...
...Mexicans I get angry. I've known Mexicans and Mexicans and they've all been good fellows. Let them alone to fight their own battles, I say. What if they do hurt our oil interests? I can use a street car. I don't have to use a taxi all the time...
Basso. Recently Mrs. Louise MacPherson fell, fractured her hip. Her husband, Joseph, about to make his debut before the jeweled Metropolitan audience and 38 fellow-townsmen who had traveled all the way from Nashville, Tenn., for the occasion, visited her in the hospital, left, chased a taxi, caught a cold, could not appear as the King in Aida (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week Basso MacPherson sang. He has a pleasant near-basso voice. But only two Nashville people witnessed the triumph-his mother-in-law and his teacher. Because the Metropolitan Opera does not broadcast, Mrs. MacPherson turned...
...Iolanthe. For those who know Gilbert and Sullivan no more need be said. For those who don't George Gershwin should be quoted. When asked what he thought of the "Pirates", during the intermission on the opening night all he could say was, "Gee". Gilbert and Sullivan, like Yellow Taxi drivers, are "always reliable...