Word: chauffeur
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...right downstairs), the handsome son of a peer breezes up for "a spot of chemmy." Chairs are found for his group to watch; drinks are passed. In three hours, playing with flair, he wins $210,000. Satisfied, but not flaunting his coup, he departs. But before the chauffeur can wheel his Bentley out from all the others, the Right Honourable realizes that he forgot to get a chit for his winnings. He goes back. Tempted by his luck, he tries another few shoes. Two hours later he has lost...
...five well-known agitators. They pinned up pictures of Ky and other generals on the stakes used for public executions, together with a sign that read: "This is the plaza of demagogy. Ky, Thieu and Co. must be executed." With that, the Buddhist monks slipped into their chauffeur-driven cars and sped away, while the agitators used megaphones to turn the assembly into an antigovernment, anti-American, anti-war parade through Saigon. Their banners, in English, were often antigrammatical as well. Samples: "Down with U.S. Obstructions," "Our Nation's Sovereignty Must Be Conserved," and "Down with the Americans...
This French-bred farce is set in 1905, and Ford has no trouble convincing anyone that the swiftest road to hell is to read the early plays of George Bernard Shaw. That is what his daughter is doing, and she has already fallen in love with a chauffeur. Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When...
...first week of Candy's trial and she has been hearing the words adultery, fornication and incest used openly in court nearly every day." What she might have been reading was just as bad. Wrote Jim Bishop: "Some claim to have seen photos of Candace embracing her Negro chauffeur . . . Other photos show the swinging grandma almost nude...
...Party, which is informally allied to the British Labor Party, lost two seats, ending up with only two. All of which meant that O'Neill would probably have five full years to keep Northern Ireland moving. It also meant five easy years for the Prime Minister's chauffeur, for O'Neill likes to wheel around his official black Humber him self. The chauffeur sits beside him on the front seat...