Excuse Me!
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By Rupert Hughes 2 Dec, 2020
Brief Extract: The young woman in the taxicab scuttling frantically down the dark street, clung to the arm of the young man alongside, as if she were terrified at the lawbreaking, neck-risking speed. But evidently, some greater fear goaded her, for s ... Read more
Brief Extract: The young woman in the taxicab scuttling frantically down the dark street, clung to the arm of the young man alongside, as if she were terrified at the lawbreaking, neck-risking speed. But evidently, some greater fear goaded her, for she gasped: "Can't he go a little faster?" "Can't you go a little faster?" The young man alongside howled as he thrust his head and shoulders through the window in the door. But the self-created taxi-gale swept his voice aft, and the taut chauffeur perked his ear in vain to catch the vanishing syllables. "What's that?" he roared. "Can't you go a little faster?" The indignant charioteer simply had to shoot one barbed glare of reproach into that passenger. He turned his head and growled: "Say, do youse want to lose me me license?" Less
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Rupert Hughes (January 31, 1872 – September 9, 1956) was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hugh...
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