Word: chauffeur
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...Paris 65-year-old Henri Guilloux, cautious chauffeur to the late King Edward VII of England, suddenly ran amok, murdered a neighbor, hanged his wife, killed himself...
Driven by his chauffeur, accompanied at times by two other women and a 70-year-old named "Smitty" who called himself "St. John the Baptist," they toured around in a big automobile. Hotels accepted them as "St. John the Baptist & party of five," one room clerk noting on his register "a religious party on tour." "St. John the Revelator" introduced Miss Jewett to such Divine beliefs as that the Father could send a "vibration" from Harlem to Denver. Wrote she last week: "I felt a sudden chill. Everyone was pleased. They told me, 'that is Father Divine sending...
...agreeable. The Passion Play with which he hoped to make Zion the U. S. Oberammergau (TIME, March 29) was doing well. In an approaching municipal election Mr. Voliva believed his adherents would be victorious, thus restoring him to complete power over Zion. Then, one morning, Overseer Voliva directed his chauffeur to drive him past Shiloh Tabernacle, the rambling frame structure built by Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva...
...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...
...receives great publicity and has a large following but he has no academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...