Word: chauffeur
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...confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an admirer of Thomas Mann. Says he of cocktail parties: "When I have to go to any of them. I tell my chauffeur not to switch off the gas, for I'll be back in a few minutes." A hater of demagogy, and himself a poor orator, he has a first-rate legal mind and is an able negotiator. In interviews a tense and nervous man. he is a chain cigarette smoker...
...officer's rank when he takes up with an old girl friend who is in the resistance. Shipped to the Russian front, he does nothing more dangerous than guard and kitchen duty, manages to escape handily when the great retreat gets under way. He becomes a chauffeur at headquarters, and he always manages to keep just out of reach of the Russians. At the end he joins a group that deliberately deserts and chooses the British as the most desirable captors...
...waited in the Foreign Office as Sir Winston drove to the palace. Top hat gleaming, Sir Anthony Eden drove along the Mall as the Scots Guards wheeled and stomped in the blaze of color and trumpets that is the changing of the palace guard. Approaching the iron gates, his chauffeur blinked the Humber's lights in a recognition signal. The sentries crashed their rifles in salute...
...Faith, in his busy work. When Father Walsh started a foreign mission society, he found a fine headquarters site near Ossining, N.Y., but there was some prejudice in those parts against Catholic organizations. Mary Rogers suddenly became a wealthy young Bostonian looking for a country place. Her goggled chauffeur accompanied her to the negotiations with hardly a word; beneath his linen duster was a clerical collar. After the transaction was completed, she transferred the deed to Chauffeur Walsh in consideration of $1. Mary Rogers, and five other women who had come to help the Maryknoll Fathers,* began by calling themselves...
...commodity speculator in years, he was doing fine. First the gravel driveway at his small bungalow was blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought a $150,000 yacht, used it as an office...