Word: chauffeured
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...side street. Two men got out of the first car. Came a policeman, who was surprised when one of the men handed him a driver's license reading: "John Coolidge, age 21, height 6 ft., residence 21 Massasoit St., Northampton, Mass." The other man was William Cunningham, chauffeur of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving the Governor's car when it crashed. In the wrecked car were Wilfred Veno, professional hockey player, with a fractured skull and a slash across...
Just before the Court left for Scotland Her Majesty motored out from Windsor Castle, quite unaccompanied except by her chauffeur, for a visit to the Berkshire nursing home. What happened next became a secret which has been weeks in leaking...
...been christened "Diamond Lil" by the New York American (Hearst daily). A series of political cartoons† depicts her as part donkey, part woman, with big pearls around her neck, with tight-fitting, scanty black dress. She usually goes riding in an automobile with a tiger flunky and a chauffeur labelled RASKOB. Some days ago, Diamond Lil had an accident, an explosion caused by the Maine election. Her automobile was blown to smithereens. The story beneath the cartoon told...
...Raskob, Diamond Lil's new chauffeur, also declined to be interviewed. Nurses at the hospital, where he lay for awhile unconscious, say that he repeated over and over, 'Take me back to General Motors,' whatever he may have meant by that...
However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...