Word: chauffeured
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...last week Linda Gaddy Bilbo, tall, thin, grey-haired wife of the stocky little pecan-growing Governor of Mississippi, summoned her Cadillac to the front door of the Bilbo home at Poplarville, Miss. To her Negro chauffeur, an ex-convict pardoned by her husband, she named her destination: West Point, N. Y. Then away she drove to visit her son. Cadet Theodore Gilmore Bilbo Jr., a plebe at the U. S. Military Academy...
...flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success ? quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable. Half a year ago, though he had a chauffeur to drive his Rolls-Royce, Morton Downey was wondering if he had enough money to hire an orchestra and open a nightclub. He had just come back from London where in 1927 the Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much...
...excuse himself were unavailing. "If you need to get to Belgrade, I'll take you," said Her Majesty, insisted upon knowing his address, delivered him at the door. A few days later at a public function the general encountered King Alexander. "I hear you have a new chauffeur," said His Majesty with a twinkle...
...that it hurt. Miss Twelvetrees is so constantly in personal communication with her director that one feels uncomfortably intrusive, and gropes for the nearest exist. If one is so unlucky as to wish to stick to it out, one sees Miss Twelvetrees get indecently plastered, hears her tell her chauffeur to drive faster, faster, hears the pistol fired, and hopes to God that it is Miss Twelvetrees. It isn't, but she is acquitted and goes home, having learned her lesson. So did the audience...
...other 35 winners included stenographers, doctors, spinsters, a Finnish lumberjack, a Swiss nurseryman, an aerial photographer, a chauffeur, a welder, two dentists, two locomotive firemen...