Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding around from town to town, Ed Oliver, who lived on hamburgers and water before the U. S. Open, snoozes in the back seat of his Packard (his kid brother is his chauffeur), thanks his lucky star that the U. S. G. A. kicked him out of the tournament. Poor Porky, barred from last week's national P. G. A. championship too (because he has not yet served five years as a golf pro), is probably making more money ($400 a week) as the guy who was kicked out of the Open than he would have made...
Except for German Army cars, everyone in Paris went on foot, on bicycles, or dived into the suffocatingly crowded Métro. The rich resurrected carriages and rode behind cockaded coachmen in barouches or victorias. One banker found a tandem bicycle; put his chauffeur up front, went through the motions of pedaling behind. By night Paris was dead except for the distant thunder of the R. A. F. blasting away at the Le Bourget or Villacoublay airfields...
...military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week he was back with a story...
Suddenly a six-wheeled military car dashed up. Adolf Hitler got down from beside the chauffeur. Salutes flashed, heels clicked. The "interview" began: it was a harangue. Brandishing papers on which he had jotted notes in answer to prepared questions, Hitler screamed at Wiegand...
...reichsmark. Nevertheless, with its King in hiding, the city blacked out, food falling short and young men slipping off to the hills every night to join their Army, Oslo finally became resentful. Nazis shot snipers as usual. At least 100 Osloans were executed, many for refusing to chauffeur Germans to the front...