Word: chauffeured
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...life by friends of Actress Baarova's husband. These friends, incensed because the husband had been sent to a concentration camp, had surprised the Propaganda Minister in Lida's rooms, might have killed him had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Goebbels' chauffeur. Frau Goebbels, one of Herr Hitler's more prominent tea-pourers, was supposed to have chuffed off to Copenhagen for the divorce she has long wanted...
Powel Sr. wanted Powel Jr. to follow him into law. But young Crosley liked to tinker with automobiles. By 1906 he was a private chauffeur (although his father was a prosperous attorney). By 1909, at 23, he was president of an automobile manufacturing company. It was his idea to make a low-priced, six-cylinder car, but bad financing wrecked the venture and for eleven years he drifted from job to job, automobiles to advertising to gadgets...
...then strange things started to happen. "Drive slower, so everybody can see," the chauffeur heard Corrigan say as the procession started for City Hall. When the welcoming parade was over, Douglas Corrigan had his appraisal ready: "What? . . . only two hours and fifteen minutes. ... In Kansas City the parade was two hours and forty minutes." Down at the Hall Corrigan got a shiny gold medal. "This is a pretty good medal," he vouchsafed to Mayor Frank L. Shaw. Then he added: "Some of the others were better...
Hollywood guides linger loquaciously in front of the tomb of Rudolf Valentino in the Hollywood Cemetery. Every year, they say, on the anniversary of Valentino's death, a mysterious, thickly-veiled Woman in Black is driven to the gates by a chauffeur, alights, places a bunch of red roses on Valentino's tomb, dabs daintily at her eyes with a black-bordered handkerchief, departs. Last year there came also an old man with a beard, a grey skull cap and a staff of yellow ribbons, who knelt and prayed, then played The Sheik of Araby on a mouth...
...lawn rather than a lake. The owner of the place hurried up to rebuke Elmer Zook, instead helped him dismantle his glider, offered to store it in his garage, sent him home by automobile. On the way home Elmer Zook inquired, "Say, who was that guy?" Replied the chauffeur: "Edsel Ford...