Word: chauffeured
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...Cincinnati. He took daily walks downtown and often chatted with people around Fountain Square. Motorists waiting at red lights were were often often surprised to see the cleric also waiting patiently for the green behind the wheel of his 1981 Oldsmobile. Bernardin not only shunned the services of a chauffeur but also sold off the archbishop's mansion and moved into a three-room rectory apartment. He also wrote a regular column on church and social issues for the diocesan weekly, then published letters disputing his views. A highly skilled administrator, Bernardin established a pastoral council to furnish...
...week's events unfolded, their worst fears seemed to be realized. Speeding from appointment to appointment through Moscow's wide streets in a black, chauffeur-driven Chaika limousine, Graham saw only what his hosts wanted him to see. Moreover, he seemed to say only what his hosts wanted him to say. At the end of a hectic schedule, which included a sermon at the only Baptist church in Moscow, a homily at the opulent Yelokhovsky Orthodox Cathedral, a speech at the conference (held in Moscow's World Trade Center) and a meeting with the six Pentecostalists taking...
...hardly matters that Diva's plot components do not parse. The best thrillers rarely traffic in linear common sense; nobody, including Raymond Chandler, ever figured out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. But they did evoke a world so cohesively ominous that when life and death eyeballed each other at the denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue...
...played opposite such leading men as Robert Taylor, Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Often cast as a glamorous schemer, Bruce scored an early triumph in 1932 as an adulterous maid who shared her favors with villainous Chauffeur John Gilbert in Downstairs (she married him the same year). A veteran of 55 films, Bruce is best remembered for her portrayal of a chorus girl in The Great Ziegfeld...
Much of the $106 million budget for the legislature goes to pay the salaries of its 1,000 employees. Ninety-three of those are sergeants at arms, who have been routinely dispatched to pick up laundry, chauffeur wives and, in one case, to feed live mice regularly to a pet snake belonging to former Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti. The majority of the legislative staff, of course, is engaged in legitimate work. But critics question the propriety, let alone the need, of hiring 200 new aides this year. Most of the 78 additional senate staff members, according to President Pro Tempore...