Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such rubbish, said a woman with an umbrella, eyeing disdainfully a red and black oblong all by itself in a glass case ten times too large for it, such rubbish might as well be burned, and better. She turned away and, crossing a large white granite hall, found a taxi that would take her away as quickly as possible from the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, and the International Collection of Postage Stamps which opened there last week...
...last week. The cart was heavy. Beneath a load of warm manure nestled 110 pounds of golden 20-franc pieces done up in sacks. Arrived at the Bank of France the peasant, Jacques Brosson, winnowed out his sacks of gold, exchanged them for 730,000 paper francs, hired a taxi, returned home to hoard paper which he believed would soon appreciate...
...were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against a fast man who can hit, he'll be done for," critics said...
...make fortunes in South African gold? Mr John Hays Hammond. The latter, now retired, has developed a lively interest in education; last week he addressed "all June graduates" by radio. His subject: "Success." **THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT?Charles F. Thwing?Macmillan ($2.50). ??Why he did not get a taxi has been the subject of much subsequent debate...
France. The song of the taxi driver stopped by a policeman who tells that worthy what to do "If you see my aunt!" has already circled the globe, but without its original connotation...