Word: chauffeured
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...bought a secondhand, 93-ton yacht. With great ceremony he had re-christened it the Barbados after the island of his birth. He bought also two gaudy Packard limousines, seven pianos, which he put aboard his ship. He hired a captain, a crew, a chauffeur named Willie. With this outfit he would return to Barbados and make himself a king of trade. Last week he put to sea for the 1,500-mi. voyage home...
Married. Mrs. William Whitman (Anna Heaton Fitch) Farnam, 43, widow of the late Treasurer Farnam of Yale University who was 85 when he died last year; and Vincenzo Ardenghi, 28, Italian chauffeur who motored her about Europe the past summer; in Paris...
...Manhattan. A tall, sleek, keen-minded, conscientious jurist, he was jovial off the bench, well-liked by his law students at New York University. He joshed a courthouse reporter about the judiciary scandals local newspapers were reporting, asked lightly: "Who's next?" Aug. 6 he ordered his chauffeur to be ready to drive back to Maine, but he did not use his automobile that day. Instead he packed a briefcase and four portfolios with documents from his office, drew almost his entire cash balance ($5,100) from two banks, told his confidential attendant he was "going up Westchester...
...Blackpool, England, mourners at the obsequies of Sir John Bickerstaffe noticed on his funeral wreath the following message, delivered to Sir John every night by his chauffeur: "The fire's dying out; the water is nice and hot; the windows and doors are bolted; the mouse traps are set and there are no mice; good-night Sir John...
...liver trouble. . . . The reason of my visit is to go to Vichy and take the cure. ... I only wanted to stage a fadeout. I don't want to return to New York. ... I ain't got no house in Brooklyn and I ain't got a chauffeur. The chauffeur belongs to my missus...