Word: chauffeur
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When the U.S. entered the war, Rickenbacker joined the Army and properly enough was assigned as chauffeur to General John J. Pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. As soon as he could, he transferred to the fledgling Air Corps. "If you're as dangerous to the Germans as you are to me," Pershing told the racing driver, "you'll be an ace in no time...
...Hireling. British class war in a limousine. Robert Shaw is the chauffeur, and Sarah Miles is Lady Franklin, the cultured English lady who is the object of his desires. Shared the Cannes 1973 Best Film Award, but it is often dull stuff, with overplayed melodrama. Abbey...
...seems to be trying to draw her into a moment of identifiable human emotion - acting as much out of his own desperation as the character's. Wolf Mankowitz's screenplay abounds with hock-shop Pinter. "Driving is really an art," m'lady comments, and the chauffeur replies, "More of a skill, perhaps...
...Neither the former Attorney General, who rarely shows emotion and seldom talks to the press at even the best of times, nor his once effervescent wife emerged. Their chief contact with the outside world was a former Hungarian freedom fighter who serves as their general aide-de camp and chauffeur. From time to time, he would run an errand or escort the Mitchells' daughter Marty to her private Catholic school...
...made a lively story for the New York press, for Schrager was, as he claimed, a newly appointed assistant district attorney of Queens County. Less attention had been paid to the earlier arrest of John Priolo, 45; he was, after all, only a Sanitation Department chauffeur. Like Schrager, he is 5 ft. 4 in. tall with receding dark hair; also like Schrager, he had been identified by several young victims of sexual attacks. Then Steve Hecht, 29, was arrested shortly after allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old girl in the hand. A postman who is also...