Word: chauffeur-driven
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...snap decisions, likes to sleep on the hard ones. He seldom relaxes. When he does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...
Party with Cuties. He moved his blonde wife, Dolores, a Sunday-school teacher, to a $40,000 English-style house on twelve acres of oak-studded land, with a big playhouse for daughter Kathleen, 4. He rolled around town in a chauffeur-driven car. He liked to peel off $100 bills from a fat roll to pay for a haircut, wowed Edwardsville's drugstore cowboys by flashing $1,000 bills. He staked the town's bowling team to a trip to a Detroit tournament. He bought a duck hunters' show place in Arkansas, dropped...
...word went out over the radio to the nation's coal miners, who had lost $61.000,000 in wages while standing beside Lewis in the fight. In mid-afternoon of a mild Dec. 7, John Lewis emerged from U.M.W. headquarters and climbed laboriously into his chauffeur-driven Cadillac limousine. Labor leaders rubbed their eyes and stared in the direction of the bridgehead. Horatius had fled...
...York City ¶TIME was misinformed. However, since the strictly pour le sport Bugatti interlude, O'Neill has chosen to be chauffeur-driven.-ED Jungle Pace...
Need for Speed. At 9:30 every morning last week a black, chauffeur-driven Humber, sporting London's R.A.F. pennant at its radiator cap, drew away from a Mayfair hotel and whizzed to the Air Ministry in Whitehall. Peter Portal hopped out and literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining...