Word: chauffeured
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...traffic. His Moto-Vita, which can be car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which is a bridge of platinum and nickel wires (weight i½ Ib.) over which the exhaust gases pass. This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires to glow hot (by its catalytic property), resist electricity. The battery current is thus shunted back through the nickel wires, to register on the graduated scale...
...about himself: two months ago, on the Baltimore-Washington highway, his car and several other cars were stopped by Prohibition agents, civilly questioned, thoroughly searched. Complacently said Secretary Jahncke: "I do not know whether the officers were State or Federal employes. I did not tell who I was. My chauffeur has specific instructions not to reveal my identity as an official of the Government. I have long since forgotten the matter and consider it just one of the incidents of life...
...Robert Robinson, Manhattan chauffeur, was fined $5 for having run down and slightly injured Zaro Agha, decrepit Turk who is in the U. S. purporting to be 156 years...
Reporter Powell's wife and four-year-old son, accompanied by a maid, were courteously ushered out of the building by the mobsters. But earlier, in the tonneau of their automobile, they had seen their native chauffeur shot dead when he ignored a rioter's order to halt...
...Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...