Word: chauffeurless
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Novelist Adela Rogers St. Johns, 45, hurrying from Manhattan to Manhasset, Long Island at 3 a. m., found herself half way home in a parked cab, the driver having stepped out for a moment. Next to her cab was another, likewise chauffeurless. Impulsively Miss St. Johns switched cabs, taking the cabby's seat. From the lunchwagon emerged two cabbies, one minus fare, the other minus cab. Miss St. Johns presently faced charges of driving a cab without an operator's license, passing a red light, driving while intoxicated. Novelist St. Johns' latest book, to be published...
...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
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