Word: chauffeured
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...telephone if she got caught in a ditch. "All right," said she, "I'll telephone you from the snow drift." "And she would, too," said the President after the door closed. She did not telephone, however. She and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. drove to Ithaca with a good chauffeur and there she marched in a fashion parade for the benefit of the Home & Farm Weekers, modeling her inauguration gowns...
...times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided to visit a cabaret with her chauffeur (John Trent...
...with a standing (and perhaps a future) in the British diplomatic service, simply "vanished." His personal bodyguard, Chief Inspector David Storier, vainly tried at Scotland Yard to get let off from guarding the Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley Ladbrooke (who last winter persuaded the King to buy Buicks, although Mrs. Simpson had originally wanted Packards), but Chauffeur Ladbrooke had had enough. The same applied to distinguished Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge, the anti-Simpsonite whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin forced upon King Edward as Private Secretary...
...permitted practices regarding expenditure of public money in relation to himself and his household that I consider questionable." Among them: $3,128 for a Lincoln limousine in 1933 (Governor La Follette had been driving a Ford), a $198.70 samovar set, a caretaker, a full-time and part-time chauffeur, two watchmen for his presidential house, parties for Glenn Frank...
...Edward VIII. Says the sympathetic French innkeeper's wife as Mrs. Simpson disappears down the road, "She seemed, oh, so much more composed, after she had telephoned the Palace." French reporters discover that Mrs. Simpson's terrier is named "Folly." They get Mrs. Simpson's chauffeur to say that she has framed on her mantel in London the Chicago Tribune's famed Cinderella Simpson cartoon: in a shoe store Empire Salesman Edward VIII with the Imperial State Crown on his head kneels and offers a diamond-studded slipper to customer Mrs. Simpson whose smile is somewhat...