Word: chauffeur
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After 25 hours of dismayed silence, Army authorities issued a tight-lipped statement. That rumor, at any rate, was no fantasy. Private William McRae, a chauffeur, had indeed been shot and seriously wounded; Colonel William T. Colman, 39, commander at Selfridge, was under arrest and observation at a Battle Creek hospital...
...husbands Paul and George, and daughters-in-law Louise Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams Morgan; $50,000 apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart, chauffeur Charles Robertson; his father's watch-chain charm (a seal), to grandson John Pierpont Morgan...
Periodically, in the tough years of war since that accident, Madame has felt at the end of her rope. She has usually blamed the way the chauffeur drove that car, but she should have blamed the way she drove herself. As the Government moved from Nanking to Hankow and from Hankow to Chungking, as the Generalissimo, with Madame at his side, moved from mere Generalissimo to become China's leader and symbol, she worked harder & harder...
...President Conant's chauffeur," the driver answered. "I'm driving him to work". It wasn't of course, but that's what he said. The officer didn't believe him, and looked into the back of the car. He intimated that he didn't believe the driver, that no President was in evidence...
...stake was not only a Senator's vengeance but an $8,000-a-year salary (plus two cars and a chauffeur), one of the Senate's juiciest jobs. It is the Sergeant at Arms's duty, besides hunting up quorums, to police the upper chamber, arrange ceremonies, escort Presidents to inaugurations, buy tombstones for Senators buried in the Congressional Cemetery, sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement...