Word: chauffeur
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...Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur to drive down a dark side street and held the frantic Chef de Protocole prisoner for agonizing hours...
...Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes they walked safely out of "The Heronry's" front door...
...bandit jumped into the automobile of Chicago Shoe Tycoon Irvinq S. Florsheim, forced his chauffeur to drive around while he took $400 from Mr. Florsheim, a $2,000 mink coat and $10 from his wife...
...armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin by rolling a peanut stand under his window, making such a disturbance that to keep them quiet he makes Harpo his chauffeur, appoints Chico secretary of war. In the course of conducting their "spy business," Harpo finds three opportunities to run after young women. Chico successfully restrains him. When Chico is tried by Freedonia's supreme court, Groucho feels sorry for him. "This abject specimen . . ." he says. Says Chico: "I abject...
...January 1932 Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, sport-loving widow of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, and her elderly white maid, Mina Buckner, were found hacked to death in their beds on Mrs. Ilsley's estate at Middleburg, Va. Wanted for the murder was George Crawford, Negro chauffeur whom Mrs. Ilsley had discharged on suspicion of stealing her liquor (TIME, May 8). A Virginia Grand Jury indicted Crawford but the police could not find him. Last January he was picked up in Boston on a petty larceny charge...