Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...
...Flemish Academy of Science and King Leopold gave the proposal his royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans were waiting for him. As he stepped out of his taxi, 200 of them pummeled him to the pavement, shouted "Resign! Resign...
Random etiquette: Don't snarl at waiters and taxi drivers. CLEAN YOUR SIDEWALK, CURB YOUR...
Reinstated by the Exchange, Joseph Sisto next made news in the Seabury investigation of Jimmie Walker. It came out that in 1929 he had given Mayor Walker $26,000 worth of bonds-just after his firm had a hand in a $5,000,000 bond issue for a taxi concern and just before Mayor Walker created a Board of Taxicab Control...
Meeting the Grand Duke in Paris were many of his White Russian "subjects"-generals now turned taxi drivers, counts reduced to waiting on tables, colonels who have become doormen. In a rented hall "His Majesty Vladimir II, Tsar of All the Russias," held "court," his subjects kneeling in obeisance as he proceeded slowly down an aisle to the tune of God Save the Tsar, the old Russia imperial anthem. Reported preparing to meet the acknowledged head of the Russian Imperial House in Germany, however, was a powerful, potential ally, a sworn enemy of the Communist Russia that must be overturned...