Word: chauffeured
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Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...
Both Calm. Dictator Mussolini and his would-be assassin both retained a glacial calm. The Premier sat quietly in his car and received an ovation with immobile features while his chauffeur changed a tire punctured by a splinter from the bomb...
...Green, guest of the LaSalle hotel in Chicago, lolled on the seat of a taxicab, very drunk. The cab stopped at his destination, the chauffeur opened the door politely, found himself staring into the unsteady muzzle of a revolver. Mr. Green exhibited a certain tipsy truculence in regard to the charges. Said the driver, smiling: "Be reasonable. Give me the gun in payment of the fare." To the somewhat fuddled brain of Mr. Green, the suggestion appeared timely, just. . . . He complied. Later, Mr. Green slept in the police station...
...menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL! The President wants you. Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor...
Died. Leopold Lojka 40, innkeeper, famed as the chauffeur who drove the automobile which carried Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo to his assassination; at Brünn, Czechoslovakia...