Word: chauffeured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence is baffling. He is punctilious about company matters, and he never misses a board meeting. The officers begin to speculate that perhaps the influenza epidemic or a terrible accident has stricken the boss. He, in fact, is missing the meeting to be at the sick bed of his chauffeur--his only true friend. Mosley contrasts P.S.'s affection for his servant with his marked coldness toward his wife. P.S. is the first of many du Ponts in the book whose friendships and love-lives are warped by the excesses and eccentricities of their upbringing...