Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War I came, Eddie enlisted, wangled a job as chauffeur to General John J. Pershing. He drove him to the front lines only once. As a flyer Eddie was resourceful, by turns cautious and daring. No U.S. flyer learned so well the corkscrew roll which enabled him to see ahead, behind, above, below and to the side; none topped his bag of 21 German planes and four balloons...
...Love's Lovely Counterfeit Author Cain is in the groove again. Principal character is broad-shouldered Ben Grace, chauffeur to Sol Caspar, racketeer ruler of Lake City...
...Chauffeur Ben knew Sol was behind it when a bank was cracked by "four wild kids, anywhere from eighteen to twenty, scared so bad the slobber is running out of their mouths, couple of them coked to the ears, their suspenders stretched double from the gats they got in their pants." He passed on the dope to the smart miss who was vote-getting for Sol's political opponents. Ben fed her tips all through the elections; got Sol run out of town...
...conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career of her daughter, Adrienne Matzenauer, who sings blues and torch songs at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room. But of her own Broadway debut last week, Mother Matzenauer...
...haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar...