Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News of Little Tsar Boris's act of ordinary courtesy created no stir in Sofia, where his devoted subjects remember that not so long ago he heroically sprang from the running board of an automobile driven by his chauffeur and seized the bridles of two terrified horses which were running away with a farm wagon full of children (TIME, Sept. 21, 1925). A few months previous the intrepid Motorist Tsar stopped his car when fired upon by roadside assassins, opened fire with his own revolver and sent the plug-uglies flying for their lives (TIME, April...
Honor Bound. A southern woman (Estelle Taylor, also known as Mrs. Jack Dempsey) shoots her first husband and allows honorable John Ogletree (George O'Brien) to go to prison for manslaughter. She marries again, persuades her second husband to use honorable Convict Ogletree as a chauffeur. One fine evening, she makes advances to honorable Chauffeur Ogletree; but he repulses her and wrecks the automobile while doing so. She is injured; her husband suspects honorable Wrecker Ogletree, sends him back to prison to labor and be flogged. In the end, honorable Hero Ogletree finds a virtuous nurse and Mrs. Jack Dempsey...
...Pinchot, who lives at Milford, on the east edge of Pennsylvania, lately had a more trying experience than Mr. McFadden's question. She was being motored home from Towanda by William F. Hinkle, her chauffeur. Near Susquehanna, Hinkle collapsed at the wheel. The car dashed off the road, grazed a pole, stopped itself. Examining Hinkle, Mrs. Pinchot found he had come down with the measles. She got him in the back seat, wrapped him in a blanket, took the wheel herself...
...airplane chauffeur, costumed in trim livery, was retained last fortnight by Mary du Cauroy, 62, Duchess of Bedford. Recently she purchased a small, conveniently maneuverable "Moth" airplane, and transformed into a landing field the lawn in front of her home, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The chauffeur is the final touch. He now pilots Her Grace back and forth to London, where she is busily engaged in performing electro-physical researches...
Rushing to a rally at East St. Louis last week, Governor Len Small of Illinois let his chauffeur "step on it." Near Girard, Ill., the Small car overtook a car occupied by two country men. Honking loudly, roaring on, the Small chauffeur whizzed alongside, cut in sharply, sideswiped the country men, ditched them, bruised them, cut them, embarrassed Governor Small...