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...even more plentiful right now. Probably there are several thousand young men and women in Greater Boston who must earn money to help pay their college expenses this coming winter. Almost any modern boy can drive an automobile well, and possibly you might use one of them as a chauffeur a few days a week. Girls are still mighty useful and pleasant persons to have around the house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1636--1931 | 9/23/1931 | See Source »

...firing of guns by Mexico's lawmakers. Manuel Ruiz died on the steps of the speaker's tribune with eight bullets in his body. General Sebastian Allende went down in the fusillade with a shot through the spine which he insisted came from somebody's chauffeur, standing in the doorway. Deputy Esteban Garcia de Alba blazed away until a bullet through the hand sent his pistol spinning. From his dugout beneath the press desk the Associated Press correspondent counted more than 60 shots before hostilities ceased and the Red Cross and police rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Chamber Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames which burned him severely, seized Miss Walsh, jumped overboard. Miss Biddle, who was pushed with Miss Glad through the front hatch by Richman's chauffeur, was burned badly about the legs and ankles. As a commandeered car rushed Miss Walsh to the hospital, she wailed: "I don't care where I'm burned so long as it's not my face! My face is my living!" Her face and front were so badly burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Bologna (TIME, June 22)? It seemed not. Reported the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten: "A gray mist surrounds the 'beloved hill in Bayreuth' as the orchestral instrumentalists make their pilgrimage to this season's rehearsals . . . [Toscanini's] green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises his stick . . . sings with the music . . . 'Molto, molto, piu molto sforzato.' He wishes a strong, dramatic accent . . . a little cantilena [singing]. . . . Then, a small error in the oboes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: More Fun | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...character, there is no absurdity in this less plausible portion of a night nurse's memoirs. Engaged to care for two small children, she finds that they are starving to death, suspects a doctor's plot to murder them. Implicated in the scheme is the household chauffeur (Clark Gable) who cuffs the nurse on the jaw when she disobeys his orders. When the hero of the picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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