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Word: chauffeurless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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