Word: chauffeur
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...somebody had to be left behind to mind our home and our large family. She is buying just the jewelry and other things she is sure they will like. So far she has learned only two words of English, 'Be Careful!,' and she addresses them to her chauffeur every time she goes out. She and the Sultan thought at first that it must be fright at your terrible traffic which made English girls so pale...
...Chicago gunmen held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice...
...schoolgirlish infatuations In the U. S. and France. Second, European Experiences (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935) told of her first two marriages, of establishing a meeting-place for adventurous spirits in her villa in Florence, included droll accounts of how she almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy...
Outside the King's chauffeur put on such speed that only a most desperate chase could have caught Mrs. Simpson, but after her Buick flashed out of Ipswich, police swung one of their cars squarely across the road and blocked traffic for ten minutes. Eminent London counsel in Ipswich for the Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward...
...funnypaper slapstick. She started her comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother Vincent...