Word: chauffeur
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...farewell to this simpático Yankee. For once Franklin Roosevelt consented to ride in a limousine on a bad day. The car's roof was plastered with the sopping petals of flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from ear to ear at the unexpected honor. The crowd cheered filial devotion as Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt buttoned a yellow slicker up around his father's neck. "Aprés vous," said the bilingual President of the U. S. to the President of Argentina, and followed...
...Wagnerian opera. For Her Majesty and all she stood for it might be Götterdämmerung ("Twilight of the Gods"), but she was far from "broken and weeping" as some dispatches reported. Just as they were being printed the Queen drove out in her regal Daimler. The chauffeur bowled along at moderate pace through a middle-class section of London and presently Queen Mary inspected through her lorgnette the still smoking ruins of the $10,000,000 Crystal Palace on which Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert lavished so much care when preparing the Great Exhibition...
Newhaven: Just as the cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which...
...biggest businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...
What Were The Facts? Being a widower, M. Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend...