Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adventure came to him in the person of Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow woman. A court decision described what followed: "Barnett was kidnapped by an adventuress." All through one night they rode in a taxi to Coffeyville, Kans. where they were married. Then they crossed the State line to Missouri and were married again...
...damage than a dozen bayonet and shot wounds and accidental injuries from bursting gas bombs and arrested the leaders of the mob and suspicious characters (including Columnist Heywood Broun). A howling mob of 250 seized Stephen Kardos, a workman who failed to join the strike, dragged him from a taxi cab, beat him, stripped him naked except for necktie, shoes and socks and marched him through the shopping district. A lone middle-aged policeman won Kardos' release with: "Boys, wouldn't your sister or your mother be shocked by such a spectacle?" After two ugly days for Toledo...
...Manhattan one afternoon last week, a dark-skinned crickety little man jumped from a taxi into a Broadway barber shop, had himself shaved, dashed for his office, summoned a stenographer and in a plaintive singsong voice dictated a dozen lines of verse. He read them over ruefully as he paced the floor. His subject was old songs and he was worried for fear it would sound conceited...
...thumb lanced by a jail doctor, was given a health examination and pronounced able to travel. The last appeal of his attorneys was turned down. At 6 one evening six Turkish guards took him from the House of Detention and drove him down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed the Sea of Marmora to the Asiatic port of Panderma where, still guarded by six Turks...
Next King Albert's bullet-proof Excelsior turned up in New York as the property of Larry Fay. loose milk and taxi racketeer who was later murdered. After riding in it for a time. Racketeer Fay presented King Alfred's Excelsior to his old friend Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. who swanked about in it until her death five months ago. To the auction block went the armored Excelsior together with a diamond-studded vanity case, a number of floor lamps and a half-dozen polo mallets. The car brought $80 from a dealer who had an idea that...