Word: chauffeured
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Arrested on complaint of Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., son of the Manhattan oil tycoon, was his chauffeur, John Spinks, charged with forcing Son Rogers & wife out of their automobile into the rain during a night drive on a lonely road near Wayne, Pa., firing a pistol at them as he drove off. Chauffeur Spinks denied the charges, asserted that Son Rogers had kicked him in the back of the head and in the face when he was examining the car's lights. He did not know which of them had fired the gun, which belonged to Rogers, while they...
...half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night before he died from his longtime Negro cook-chauffeur-valet, Chicken Fry Ben Jones...
Working fast, the Papal chauffeur had a new tire on in five minutes, sped to Castel Gandolfo where Pius XI inspected every appointment of the Summer Palace down to the vegetable garden, hen houses and kitchen. Early rising villagers received the Apostolic benediction. Then, still so early that socialite Romans had not yet tasted their breakfasts, the Papal motorcade whizzed back toward Vatican City. CRASH!-an Italian army plane came down out of control and cracked up in the Castel Gandolfo road, just after His Holiness had passed. By 10:15 a.m. punctual Pope Pius XI was back...
...Perkins uses a big flat-topped desk, piled with papers and equipped with two telephones. She arrives at 9 o'clock, eats lunch from a tray, goes out for dinner at 7, returns to work until midnight. Her long hours cost her the services of her first government chauffeur. She usually wears her hat in the office. Her secretary is an efficient, rather bossy person named Frances Jurkowitz-"Miss Jay" to all-one of whose first duties is to ensure her superior as much privacy as possible. Madam Secretary used to serve ginger ale out of her own pocket...
...Milwaukee last week, reached the point of electing a successor to President Victor William Purdy they chose an osteopath more typical than any of the foregoing. Perrin Thacher Wilson, the elect, unable to enter Harvard regularly, studied mathematics there as a special student. Meanwhile he earned his living as chauffeur for a lumber dealer. Later he delivered cakes and studied automobile repairing, eventually entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville...