Crossword-Solution: JITNEYS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

They may try, but they cannot manicure it, nor groom it, nor dress it up in a stiff white collar, nor fetter it by not allowing a body to stretch out on the grass in Union Square or prohibiting street-fakers and light wines served in coffee pots and doing away with wild dashing jitneys.

Haviland Hicks, Jr., displaying a wonderful originality by composing, then chanting, his parody, concluded the chorus roaring lustily, to a rollicking banjo accompaniment: "If street car companies gave seats to all patrons The strap-hangers in jitneys would not ride.

Although," she added ruefully, "if we couldn't pull through that mud, I don't know what we could find in Bensington to do it." "Probably the only gasoline vehicles they have in the place are jitneys," agreed Mollie, with a chuckle.

You see American jitneys scooting through the jungle; you watch five-ton American tractors hauling heavy loads along the sandy roads; you hear American slang and banter on all sides, and if you are lucky enough to be invited to a meal you get American hot cakes with real American maple syrup.

When I said that I wanted to push on to Tshikapa at once, Moody said, "We will leave at five in the morning in one of the jitneys and be in Tshikapa tomorrow night." Moody was an incorrigible optimist as I was soon to discover.