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Young & lithe enough to be worth a dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with...
...distinctly of two minds. Should he come out, certain to be acclaimed but possibly to be assassinated (as so many Irish leaders have been killed by Irish fanatics for coming to negotiate with England),* or should he duck through the corridor of the train and slip off unobserved by taxi at the far end of the platform? This wiser course the President took, explaining afterward that he was "sorry...
...Providence, R. I. Taxi Driver Morris Widergren, driven to distraction by a body-squeak in his car, inspected it thoroughly, found...
...Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. For yokels: It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible, All we want is a packet of fags* when our hands are idle...
...kind to his poor aching head, and shut that infernal buzzer off. But he certainly wasn't going to be able to cope with any alarm clock if he couldn't find his arm. Yes, he remembered, he had missed his left arm last night in the taxi; was it a taxi?--well anyhow it made no difference, when he was escorting one of the young ladies home whom he had met on a "most delightful party, yes, indeed, a most delightful party...