Word: chauffeur
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...Scottish Chauffeur R. MacBurnie: "If you cannot grant me my liberty, by which I mean my freedom of conscience, then I ask you to sentence me to death so that I may die with a clear conscience. If you are not going to sentence me to death, I should like to catch the 5:20 train." Verdict: unconditional exemption...
That afternoon Bigger is hired as chauffeur by Philanthropist Dalton, who makes his money in Negro tenements. It is a good job except for the philanthropist's radical daughter Mary. His first instructions are to drive her that evening to a lecture. She redirects him to a rendezvous with her Communist lover. What follows, as baffled and suspicious Bigger is accepted as a comrade, is one of the most devastating accounts yet printed of that tragicomic, Negrophilous bohemianism which passes among Communists as a solution of the Negro Problem...
Last week Mr. Hoover had a whiz of a plot. Its characters were mostly people in the swarming ruck of New York City: an elevator mechanic, a telegraph office clerk, a baker, a telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to the Army and Navy reserves or the National Guard; one was a captain. The props included twelve Springfield rifles, 3,500 rounds of ammunition reportedly stolen from National Guard armories, one long sword, 18 cans of cordite powder, a collection of soup and beer cans with accessories for turning them...
Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money...
...Memphis, Probate Judge Sam Bates made public two wills: 1) "To my chauffeur I leave my cars as he has almost ruined them and I want him to have the satisfaction of finishing the job"; 2) "I want six of my creditors for pallbearers-they have carried me for so long they might as well finish...