Word: taxis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...longer suspicious, went to Editor Daudet's cell and released him. M. Daudet burst into tears, kissed M. le Directeur Catry, wrung his hand, and rushed out into the street to mount a taxi. Even the taxi driver was a Royalist in disguise...
...Manhattan, one Thomas McCaffery, 11, earnestly spoke to Magistrate August W. Glatzmeyer in traffic court: "I've come to represent my father. He is a hard working man and he can't take a day off from driving his taxi, because he has to make a living for me and the rest of the kids. But me, I can miss a day at school, because I can make it up. Besides, he got a ticket on Father's Day, and every kid wants to do his bit for his father...
...taxi industry in Manhattan has its own trade paper, the Taxi Weekly. At almost any corner you may occasionally see drivers who are not "cruising, cruising," and have been lucky enough to find parking space, poring over the news of their profession. Last week, for example, idle* eyes lit up at the screamer headline "HIGHER CAB RATE PLANNED...
...pages in the Taxi Weekly are a power for good conduct among Manhattan cabbies, tabulating penalties meted out in the city's special Hack Bureau to perpetrators of prevalent hackmen's peccadillos: driving "with the flag up" (metre not recording); taking indirect routes; smoking while carrying passengers; withholding receipts from employers; forgetting license badge; charging an Englishman who undervalued U. S. currency $14 for a $1.40 ride...
...lazy. Last week, Manhattan taxi-men protested strenuously through their Weekly against an advertisement of Listerine toothpaste which showed a cabby dozing at his steering wheel, with the caption : "Even for lazy people...