Word: chauffeur
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...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...
Somewhere in England 22-year-old Corporal Ora A. Foster of suburban Pontiac, Mich, thumbed a ride in an outsize limousine, chatted in the back seat for some 14 miles with two pleasant ladies while a British colonel sat up front with the chauffeur. "I more or less did the talking," Foster reported later. Before he got out one of the ladies remarked, "I guess you don't know who I am, do you?" "You've got me beat," said Foster, and she told him: Queen Mary. Corporal Foster summed up classically: "You could have knocked me down...
Half-blind Novelist Booth Tarkington, was awarded the [Theodore] Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal, commented on his 73rd anniversary: "I'm not old enough to glory in it, and I'm too old to be cheerful about it." Condoled his chauffeur, "You're looking good...
...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...
...Hitler's favorites was his longtime chauffeur, the late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth, that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death...