Word: chauffeured
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Photographers begged for one more picture, on the hotel steps with the manager. Mayor Walker, letting Secretary Mellon wait, obliged. Then he motored to the Treasury Department. The chauffeur wanted to stop at the Secretary's private entrance but Mayor Walker wisecracked: "Better go in the regular way, although I've been thrown out of better places than that...
Beniamino Gigli (tenor) was last week as fidgety as the man who wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon...
...following plan was agreed upon, according to the Prince: "On the day that Rasputin should choose to come to me, I was to call for him toward midnight, and drive him to the Moika in an open car with Dr. Lazovert as chauffeur. While Rasputin was drinking tea, I was to administer a solution of cyanide of potassium, which would cause his immediate death. His body was to be put into a sack, driven out of town and thrown into the water...
There was not enough headway for their chauffeur to stop. So to avoid killing busybodies and brawlers he tried to drive along the shoulder of the road. The rear wheels skidded. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were jolted half out of the open tonneau into the ditch. The car rolled on top of them...
Leaving the town hall for the residence of the governor of Bosnia the royal car made a wrong turning and while the chauffeur was backing the automobile several shots rang out. The royal couple fell back mortally wounded. In consternation orders were given to drive on to the governor's residence, but before the two-minute drive was over the Duchess was dead. Fifteen minutes later the Archduke died, shot through the jugular vein. His last words were: "Sophie, live for our children...