Word: chauffeured
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...master, had caught on fire. There are 971 rooms in the new building, and students attracted by the blaze bothered firemen and the police by peering from the windows into the courtyard. They were admonished to throw no bricks. No bricks were thrown, but damage resulted when an incautious chauffeur carelessly removed the rear end of an opposing fire-wagon...
Canadians recalled that two years ago a Minister took his official car and chauffeur with him to Europe. He retorted when questioned in the Canadian Parliament...
...middling height and weight, Governor Ely violates all rules of Massachusetts Democracy by smoking cigarets instead of rancid cigars. A quick, flashy smile has rendered him immensely popular. As Governor, he transferred from his own Chrysler to the Chrysler sedan furnished by the State but kept his private chauffeur. At the State House he received, among many another, a great floral tribute from Motorman Walter Percy Chrysler...
...family chauffeur bundled Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., into a limousine and started for a family party at the grandfather's house. As the car neared the highway entrance to the Percy J. Orthwein estate at Huntleigh Village, St. Louis suburb, a Negro jumped out of the shrubbery, brandished a revolver, ousted the chauffeur. Negro, child and limousine disappeared in the distance. The chauffeur hurried back afoot to spread the alarm...
...curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought off his wife and father, pushed himself out of an eighth-story window, plunged to his death (just missing Dancer Clifton Webb's chauffeur) because he was afraid he would not be a success as Gogol's ill-smelling hospital commissioner...