Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns out to be a dream, and everything must be threshed out again from...
House Guest. In Philadelphia, a court awarded Lela Ruth Sauder $2,500 back pay as a reluctant housekeeper, errand girl, barber and chauffeur to George C. Swanfeld, 90, who came to her house for a two-week visit, stayed on for twelve years...
...Many thanks for the ice cube trays. They arrived in good shape. Now, I want to get a pair of shoes for our bureau's faithful chauffeur. I am enclosing the outline of his foot without shoes...
Nearing 80, Toscanini eats little, sleeps little (four or five hours), goes to Broadway musicals like Annie Get Your Gun but not on opening night, stays away from places where he is likely to be recognized and fussed over. He is driven to rehearsals by a chauffeur in a Cadillac from his 22-room house in suburban Riverdale where he lives with his wife, Carla, and two servants. At home, he is fascinated by his television set, on which he recently saw his first prize fight. He dreams of traveling by rocket ship or atomic power...
Birds in Their Little Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...