Word: chauffeured
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...caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money changed hands, detectives shot the tires off the crooks...
...really seen the country. Sending his wife home he returned to Moscow, found lodgings with a Russian family in a tiny house, got a job tending a machine in a candy factory at 80 rubles per month. Thence he went to Leningrad, took another job as chauffeur for Intourist at 250 rubles. At the end of three months he returned to the U. S., second class, wearing a wrinkled brown suit, khaki shirt, flannel tie, battered cap, carrying two pieces of luggage and a cardboard box. He bubbled with enthusiasm over the Russians who, he felt, had "the answer...
Falling safety bars at a railway crossing between Amsterdam and Haarlem struck an automobile bearing ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. In time's nick his chauffeur inched the car out of the way of a hurtling locomotive...
Secretary of the Treasury Woodin sent some clothes & things in his Rolls-Royce to his son-in-law in Flushing, L. I. On the way Lawrence Redmond, his chauffeur, bumped a car ahead, caromed into a second, skidded into a third, slightly injuring five persons. Chauffeur Redmond was arrested for reckless driving...
Last year Mrs. Abbott was awarded temporary maintenance of $300 a month, use of their 11-room house on the South Side, the Pierce-Arrow, Arthur the chauffeur and Rosalee the maid. Publisher Abbott was permitted to keep the Rolls Royce which, he has confided to friends, he bought second-hand to set at rest the gossip of competing Negro papers that the Defender was on the rocks...