Word: chauffeured
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...Dalai Lama ordered an automobile and a Chinese chauffeur. To get it from Darjeeling to Lhasa, corps of coolies, 30 strong, were stationed along the mountain passes, where no roads exist, to carry the car when it could not be driven. Now other Tibetans can buy "devil wagons" without sacrilege...
...strict accounting of the University's recent record. He lopped large sums from the University budget. After an investigation which went into such things as Dr. Frank's salary ($20,400), his earnings from press-writings (about $20,000) and the salary of Mike, his chauffeur ($2,010), the Legislature restored some of the monies President Frank wanted, but Governor La Follette came off best in the attendant publicity...
...several cars, usually drives a Mercedes, never takes a chauffeur. Roy Howard, impulsive and impatient, is a "terrible driver," rarely takes the wheel of his Minerva or Locomobile...
...John Daniel Hertz, taxicab tycoon, who persuaded him to take the presidency of Yellow Cab Co. of Chicago upon Mr. Hertz's retirement. For a time, while a bitter and somewhat bloody war was being waged between Yellow and Checker Cab drivers, Ames was driven about by a huge chauffeur, armed to the teeth. But in a very few months after Yellow was taken over by Parmelee Transportation Co., "Junior" resigned. He became Chicago chief of a financial wire service, but the Journal of Commerce needed him, and he returned...
...chauffeur, An Argentine loafer...