Word: chauffeur
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...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...
...night he returned to his Springfield, Ill., home, according to his chauffeur, he went down to the cellar and burned a briefcaseful of papers. Next day, his agitation so alarmed his wife that she sent for State Police Chief Walter Williams. Chief Williams found Mr. Smith pacing his living room, muttering nervously that someone was trying to get him. Abruptly he excused himself and went into the kitchen, yanked a long-bladed knife from a drawer and stabbed himself over the heart and in the neck. Williams rushed him to a doctor. The wounds were not serious. After they...
Afternoons off, Mom and her son, like two characters out of a Theodore Dreiser novel, would go for long bus rides through booming Beverly Hills. Joe promised his Mom a big house some day and a great big car "where you sit inside and the chauffeur sits outside and gets rained on." Mickey McGuire. Through thick and thin Mom has always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley...
...long, sleek care begin to draw up in front of Brattle Hall. Sometimes a chauffeur opens the door: sometimes an undergraduate whose sloppy reversible contrasts oddly with his white starched shirt front and pearl studs. The girl is in shimmering silk: it is the very latest thing, the very best. For this is the night, you know. The third in the Brattle Hall series for sub-debs...
Leave Her to Heaven tells of a middle-aged married woman who has an affair with her young chauffeur. An insanely jealous youth, he bashes in the husband's skull with a mallet. The wife, to save her lover, confesses to the crime; the lover confesses also. He is convicted and sentenced to be hanged; she is acquitted and kills herself...