Word: chauffeured
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...little chestnut race horse from a man who owed a feed bill of $170 and wanted to sell the horse for the bill. This summer, 14-year-old "Bob" Cudahy marked out a quarter-mile track on the Onwentsia Club polo field, had the family chauffeur hold a clock while he rode his horse around it. Later he sent the horse to the racing stable of one of his father's friends, had the trainer let a jockey exercise him. Because in his nine previous starts he had never done better than fifth, none of the Cudahys except young...
When a little girl gave chase to the royal limousine, panting after it with a fistful of flowers. Prince George told the chauffeur to pull up and the child with a breathless curtsy plumped her posies into Princess Marina's lap. At Prince George's apartments in St. James's Palace, the Princess and her parents spent an hour, then left with him for Balmoral Castle. As yet Marina had no engagement ring, since George had found nothing suitable in the Balkans where he wooed her (TIME. Sept. 10). Last week His Royal Highness ordered in London a superb Kashmir...
...villa at San Rossore. took the long white road north, unescorted and unannounced. Citizens of the bustling little seaside town of Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them as the royal car slipped in with the blinds half drawn. Hucksters cursed the King's chauffeur when his tooting scared a donkey. Then serenely the big car shot between the gateposts of the historic Bourbon-Parma villa and Italian royalty alighted to make a match...
Driving to Boston to speak over the radio, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins fretted in a Labor Day traffic jam outside Brunswick, Me. To escape from a tangle with two other cars, her chauffeur swerved into a ditch, lost control, over turned her sedan. Madam Secretary Per kins, badly jolted, canceled her afternoon engagement, delivered her speech that evening...
Mary, being the daughter of a chauffeur and a lady's maid, was class-conscious from her youth up. Orphaned, god-mothered by a real lady, she had the laudable ambition of bettering herself. She got a job in London at a fashionable dress shop, counted her pennies, cultivated her tongue, studied shorthand and typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth...