Word: chauffeured
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Jimmie Rodgers now had money. His records were played throughout the South, in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India. He could buy all the whiskey he wanted to forget his pain. He also bought a Buick, a Packard, a Cadillac, kept a chauffeur. He bought his father a home in Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole...
Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...
...dinner party at her Beverly Mass., summer home, Socialite Mrs Juliette Leiter, widow of Chicago's rich, speculating Joseph Leiter, ran short of silverware, borrowed what she needed to piece out from her neighbor Mrs. Anna Allan. To return them early next morning, the Leiter chauffeur loaded them carefully into the Leiter Rolls-Royce. Out of the car few minutes later, as it stood in the Leiter driveway, thieves stole the borrowed silverware: eight salt spoons, two pepper two salt shakers, two pepper pots...
...from a campaign swing through the sparsely settled northern districts of his province. Then he told his story. Motoring one day through a lonely stretch of prairie, he had stopped by the roadside, seen with his own eyes the tribal dance performed by 20 prairie chickens. He had his chauffeur and a man named Fairley for witnesses. Saskatchewanians listened respectfully, pondered, went to the polls, voted James Thomas Milton Anderson out of office...
...year of his suspension, he bought two 16-cylinder Cadillacs, soon lacked money to run them. In Reno, he met and married a Dorothy Dunbar with whom he has since quarreled and made up seven times. When he left Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled...