Word: rochambeau
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...first three marriages were all to the same man, Playboy Morton McMichael Hoyt, brother of the late Poetess Elinor Wylie. Hoyt attracted attention in 1928 when, on a dare, he jumped off the liner Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic. Another Hoyt stunt: chopping up a whiskbroom, eating it with cream and sugar. He and Eugenia were divorced, twice remarried and divorced between...
...Social Security Board is scattered piecemeal over Washington: in the old Portland Hotel, the Rochambeau Apartments, various other odd corners...
Died. The Marquis de Rochambeau, 75, a vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution, direct descendant of the general whom Louis XVI dispatched in 1780 to command the French armies supporting the American Revolution; in his family chateau near Saint-Gaultier, France...
...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...