Word: chauffeured
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...where he learned to ride. He is a clever horseman; his favorite diversions are trapping and hunting. During a period when he gave up show business because of his mother's opposition, he sold first farm machinery, then insurance, went broke running a garage. Now he has a chauffeur, a cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains, can make up like Douglas Fairbanks. He dresses foppishly, is fussy about his household arrangements, prefers maids to men servants. Some of his other pictures were A Tailor Made Man, Behind That Curtain, Romance of the Rio Grande...
Richard Dix in "Lovin' the Ladies" provides the other feature picture and does an adequate job: masquerading as a gentleman instead of the good electrician he really is. Dix is strongly reminiscent of the chauffeur in Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman." The story drags in the latter reels...
...barked the robber chieftain at last. "Get back into your car. Tell your chauffeur to drive to Bucharest without stopping, quick...
...through the night to Borivli. Outside this town the train halted and the prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat...
...England, Solly and Jack are best known for their racing stables. Among their prize horses have been Prince Palatine (bought for ?40,000), Sunstar, Humorist. Of Solly's children, Doris eloped with a chauffeur, Stanhope secretly married a U. S. citizen, one Gladys MacFordon. another son died bankrupt at sea. Still unmarried and living with him is 22-year-old daughter Eileen for whom his yacht the Eileen, once the Doris, is named. Solly spends most of his time in England in his London office on Austin Friars. At least once a year, however, he visits Capetown. Huge...