Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money...
...Memphis, Probate Judge Sam Bates made public two wills: 1) "To my chauffeur I leave my cars as he has almost ruined them and I want him to have the satisfaction of finishing the job"; 2) "I want six of my creditors for pallbearers-they have carried me for so long they might as well finish...
Chapter 3: At the Border. Next day a big limousine drew up near a little inn on the German-Dutch border at Venloo. At the wheel was a certain Dutchman named J. Lemmens, posing as a chauffeur. In back was a blond, immaculate Englishman named Sigismund Payne Best, amateur musician, husband of a famous Dutch society painter, Mariettje van Rees, something of a getabout in Dutch circles; owner of a large house mysteriously close to the Royal Palace. With him was dark-haired Captain Richard Henry Stevens, well known as the head of the British Secret Service on the Continent...
Chapter 11: Threat. Proud of its solution though it was, the Reich was highly dissatisfied with the threatening role the supposedly neutral Netherlands had played in this horrid affair-allowing an alleged chauffeur to be captured and a Dutch Army officer shot dead while apparently assisting British spies...
Secretary, chauffeur, and unofficial aide-de-camp for a general in the French Foreign Legion is the present occupation of John C. Baker '42, according to the latest letter from him to a friend at Harvard...