Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero Chester Tattersall, unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...
...skilful collaborator. Once a hobo, he says: "I came to New York just to see the sights ... my money ran low. . . . Hack driving seemed to be a very handy way to see New York and eat at the same time." Still at the taxi wheel, he is now about...
...Paris taxi driver noticed in another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...
...been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...