Word: chauffeur
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...Lost Baby." New York citizens recalled afresh, last week, their city's most famed recent baby abduction, that of Billy Gaffney, snatched from his home in Brooklyn in 1927 and never returned. Having sent a message of condolence to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, scrawny, pathetic Mrs. Gaffney, wife of a chauffeur, mournfully predicted to reporters: ''She'll cry for him nights; she'll think about him days as she goes around the house, and she'll cry afresh when the new baby is laid in her arms, for he'll make her think again of the lost baby...
Quick as a panther, Dr. Dan's chauffeur sprang on the youth, wrenched the pistol from his hand before he could fire a second shot. But crumpled on the pavement in front...
...more flesh & blood acts than in 1929. Radio-Keith-Orpheum spent $12,000,000 on its vaudeville last year. The four Mills Brothers, their engagement at Manhattan's Palace Theatre extended for a third time, rolled about town last week in their automobile driven by a liveried chauffeur...
Outside Congress: A rich bachelor, he lives in his ancestral home, a big brownstone house on fashionable 16th Street. He drives himself to & from the Capitol in a Ford, keeps a big limousine and chauffeur for social purposes. The Senate's most inveterate sportsman, he bowls and boxes daily at a gymnasium, plays golf in the 70's at Burning Tree Club, shoots ducks, goes to Alaska to hunt Kodiak bear, and bring their cubs back to the Washington zoo. Socially he moves in the best Washington circles but prefers admirals to most of his Senate colleagues...
...influenced. Mrs. Henderson spoke at his house, remembered that the day was Daniel Webster's 150th birth anniversary, quoted his "The fact of compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberties of the people in a land of freedom." Harley G. Bowen, police department chauffeur, hearkened to her arguments, refused vaccination, lost his job therefor...