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Word: chauffeur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Photographers begged for one more picture, on the hotel steps with the manager. Mayor Walker, letting Secretary Mellon wait, obliged. Then he motored to the Treasury Department. The chauffeur wanted to stop at the Secretary's private entrance but Mayor Walker wisecracked: "Better go in the regular way, although I've been thrown out of better places than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Walker | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Beniamino Gigli (tenor) was last week as fidgety as the man who wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...following plan was agreed upon, according to the Prince: "On the day that Rasputin should choose to come to me, I was to call for him toward midnight, and drive him to the Moika in an open car with Dr. Lazovert as chauffeur. While Rasputin was drinking tea, I was to administer a solution of cyanide of potassium, which would cause his immediate death. His body was to be put into a sack, driven out of town and thrown into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Death of Rasputin | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

There was not enough headway for their chauffeur to stop. So to avoid killing busybodies and brawlers he tried to drive along the shoulder of the road. The rear wheels skidded. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were jolted half out of the open tonneau into the ditch. The car rolled on top of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: John J. Mitchell | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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