Word: marquisate
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The great work of Bowditch's later years was his translation of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace's Mécanique céleste, which he began during the War of 1812. The American Academy offered to bring it out by subscription; Bowditch refused. He did not want...
Then, as the Post-Dispatch's Marquis W. Childs reported last week, the State Department restrained the FBI from moving in. The gumshoes, it was thought, might upset negotiations with Germany for safe exchange of diplomatic personnel. But when Germany's Hans Thomsen and friends departed to take...
> Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic...
Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo.
Into Manhattan's plushy La Rue restaurant went the ex-Countess Margot de la Falaise (exwife of Count Alain, brother of Marquis Henri, ex of Gloria Swanson. Constance Bennett), together with Dukie, her bulldog, Paul O. Buckley, her husband of three days, and four friends. Because Dukie was charged...