Word: chauffeured
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...maestro was relaxing. Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston Satterlee, silver-bearded lawyer and brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. Designed and built in 1915 by Henry M. Crane, now technical adviser...
...native Biddle dragged the Envoy of Iran in manacles before a comparatively educated magistrate of Maryland, the Great Khan was at once set free and the wise magistrate collected only 75? costs on a plea of "guilty of speeding" offered by the envoy's humble native American chauffeur who, with touching fidelity, had sought to save his master. In Washington, where members of Asia's diplomatic missions pride themselves on "being hep to everything United States," the speeding incident was seen at the Iranian Legation to be a piece of trivial yokelry. However, to keep the diplomatic record...
...Gordon Gilkey, Jr. '39, has volunteered to assume the burden of the Red Cross work which is to be done by the committee this year. His duties largely will consist of acting as a chauffeur in the House beach wagon twice each week...
...permanently there, one of them a beautifully appointed Rolls-Royce. When the King and Queen invited Lady Alice to Balmoral, after the announcement of her engagement, she and her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, traveled the 200-odd miles from Selkirk in this car, and Lady Alice relieved the chauffeur at the wheel when they reached the Scottish Highlands. This Rolls-Royce belongs to Lady Alice's eldest brother, the Earl of Dalkeith...
...beheld a sight unparalleled since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman, where he had collapsed after a futile attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard Rosenkrantz, Flegen-heimer's chauffeur, sprawled in a pool of blood oozing from six wounds. In the rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name...