Word: straeten
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...idea," explained Joseph van der Straeten, mine host at La Paix tavern in Belgium's seaside city of Knocke, "was to float slowly over the beach so that everyone could see me, then drop a trail rope to a waiting launch which would tow me back to shore. Generally speaking, it is a good idea. I've done it more than 60 times before. But this time it was not a good idea...
Count Ludwig Salm von Hoog-straeten, Austrian nobleman who eloped recently with Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan: "The Chicago Tribune credited me with having made the following statement to 'an old friend' in the Ritz Hotel in Paris: 'Six months more of this and if Mr. Rogers does not come through [with some money], I am going to get a divorce...