Word: chauffeur
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...know how to apply as domestics." Domestic pay has risen slowly compared with other work, but in most cities outside the South a maid can draw as much as $75 a week, a cook more than $90-both with room and board included if they want it-and a chauffeur about $80 to $100 a week. Day workers usually charge by the hour, rarely get less than the $1.25 minimum wage and often get up to $2.50. Whatever the pay-and many families are willing to pay much more than the average to get help-rapid turnover vastly complicates...
...best years of her life are almost over. So Sophie (Catherine Deneuve) gulps and announces with a superior smirk: "Of course I have a lover. He's terribly passionate. He makes me undress in the car, right in the middle of town, with the chauffeur sitting up front." The other girls grin. "Really? And where do you meet?" "Oh," says Sophie grandly, "he's taken a flat for us." The enemy closes in. "Ha! You expect us to believe that? What's the address?" Sophie is superb. "Number Six, Place Violet," she announces with a shrug...
...presidential car sped along the road from Paris to Villacoublay Airport. Hurrying to catch the plane home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises were President Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne; up front with the chauffeur was the De Gaulles' son-in-law, Alain de Boissieu. Close behind followed a security car and two motorcycle policemen. As the small motorcade slowed down for a traffic circle in suburban Clamart, Old Soldier de Gaulle once again faced the guns of an enemy...
Pkhaladze-his ghosts fondly called him "Papa"-was so successful that soon he expanded to Leningrad's medical schools. He acquired a chauffeur-driven Volga limousine, dined regularly at Moscow's Aragvi Restaurant, where lavish tips earned him VIP treatment. He even treated himself to a vacation at Carlsbad in Czechoslovakia, where he posed as a movie producer...
...pick ing up paper from the aisles and scold janitors when he finds dust in rest rooms. Sack likes to roam his lobbies, reminding women patrons that "this place is clean enough to bring your children to, right?" He has been known to step out of his $15,000, chauffeur-driven Cadillac in front of a Sack theater to hustle customers into the house like a sideshow barker...