Word: chauffeur
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...scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose ends and faulty emphases and win through to the central piece of work that recommends the book. The characterization of gangling young Bronson Kenworthy, precocious, perverse, love-starved divorce-victim, is striking. He is brought up by a devoted chauffeur. He glowers at the world through thick glasses. He kicks, punches, smokes black cigars at 14, reviles his mother's name. His father and Aunt Emily slowly humanize him. He dies of pneumonia at precisely the right moment to make the thwarted lives and love of those two seem quite...
...Vienna, there exists (as reported by the Compressed Air Magazine, Manhattan) a benzene-driven ice-wagon equipped with a vertical compressor behind the chauffeur's seat for making ice, by the motor's power, between and at customers' doors...
...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
Argentina. Like the flash that precedes the thunder, the Prince of Wales' chauffeur arrived in Buenos Aires to study the capital preparatory to driving his royal master about it. The Prince is expected from Uruguay...
Early Thursday, however, Boy Scouts searching along the creek came upon the boy's bicycle and clothes on the bank. Divers at once went to work to locate the body, and after hours of effort it was found by Frank Gearing, chauffeur for Mrs. Franklin Townsend of Albany, who repeatedly risked his own life in attempts to bring it to the surface, so tightly was the body enmeshed in underwater weeds. A rowboat and grappling irons were brought overland from Kinderhook Lake and the body was secured...