Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Is Heaven (United Artists). Anyone who likes the movies will like this trite, gentle little picture about an immigrant girl who falls in love with a rich man posing as a chauffeur. In the early episodes of their flirtation, and later, when love is frustrated temporarily by one of those misunderstandings based upon questioned chastity, you experience an atmosphere which has been for years the national atmosphere of the Cinema, but which is now being replaced by other, heartier, less elementary qualities of plot and treatment. Vilma Banky, who acts nicely, talks at times in a Hungarian accent...
...Hoover last week drove her Packard to Richmond, Va., and back (225 mi.) to inspect an exhibit of portraits of early Virginians. Her guests were three - Mrs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Mrs. H. S. Cummings and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. A chauffeur rode idly in her car, a body guard trailed in another...
...Brukowski, 22, dark of hair and eye, tight of lip. For several years John drove a car for Miss Ruth Cooper of Smith College's English Department. Miss Cooper went to Europe. John was jobless when Citizen Coolidge returned to Northampton last month. Citizen Coolidge hired him as chauffeur and general handy man at $20 per week. Now John drives the dark Lincoln limousine, on the door of which can still be faintly discerned the outline of stars and an eagle which once composed the Presidential seal. At a proper discount, Citizen Coolidge bought his White House car from...
Surprisingly from the Cathedral dashed - after the service - Mrs. Parmely Herrick and Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
...Chicago, a gunman last week held up Stenographer Mary Johnson, took her purse, coat, beads, dress. Up rattled a taxi. Disrobed, dismayed, Mary stepped in. Said the chivalric chauffeur: "I'm a stickup guy myself, dearie. See these two automatics? But you've had enough for one night-I'll take you home...