Word: rochambeau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first real dentists in this country were two Frenchmen who arrived during the Revolutionary War with Rochambeau's fleet. Before that, and long afterwards, barbers, blacksmiths and jewelers pulled the teeth and made the plates of the colonists. Those "tooth-drawers" traveled from house to house, farm to farm, town to town. In their packs they carried an assortment of human, calf and hippopotamus teeth...
...made 10% to 20% cuts on their southern route. No pain to travelers was this price-cutting. Under the new rates one can travel tourist-class to England for as little as $84, to England and back to the U. S. for $148. A trip to France on the Rochambeau (cabin-class) can be had for $110. A first-class trip on the Homeric costs $168. For the famed Prince of Wales suite on the Berengaria the price has been cut from $2,430 to $1,267.50. Average minimum rates, new and old: New* Old First Class $200 $250 Cabin...
...Divorce. Nancy Hoyt, 29. author (Unkind Star, Bright Intervals), sister of the late Poet Elinor Wylie ; from Edward Davison Curtis; in Reno, Nev. Auinor Hoyt is a sister of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who, twice married to Jeanne Bankhead (sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead), prankishly jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...
Married. Jeanne Bankhead, 30, sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead; and Ennis Smith, 33, of Manhattan; at Rosarita Beach, Mexico. Five times a bride, she was twice the wife of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who achieved fame when he jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...