Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...
...George's gags a crash of silence, roared at Grade's twittery voice, her air of blissful inanity. They promptly changed places. Three years later in Cleveland George Burns and Gracie Allen were married by a peace justice who was in a hurry to go fishing. Their taxi ticked up only 15? waiting time...
...Madrid, because he kicked a policeman who intervened when he and his pugnacious brother Miguel were quarreling with taxi drivers, Fernando Primo de Rivera, son of Spain's late Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, was sentenced to three years, four months, eight days in prison...
...became a real estate agent, married his landlady, a beautician named Emily Pacheo who was 13 years his senior. With $2,500 of her money he revived The Greater Chicago Magazine, realtors' sheet. By 1928 he was paying an income tax on $20,000. Meantime he met Lillian Salo, taxi-dancer. He fell in love and went to live with her. He asked his wife to divorce him. She notified the Georgia authorities of his whereabouts (TIME, June 3, Sept...
Commented the "floozy," Taxi-dancer Salo: "I bet his old wife's tickled to death he has to go back. ... A nice girl?I don't think. . . . I'm in love with some one else right...