Word: rochets
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When Francois Coulet, General Charles de Gaulle's civil administrator for Normandy, fired subprefect Pierre Rochet, collaborationist chief of police of Bayeux, bitter-end patriots cheered. They pointed out that Rochet was a cousin of Pierre Pucheu, the first high Vichyite officially condemned and shot for treason...
...Episcopalian vernacular for a bishop's black chimere and white rochet...
Bishop Hobson donned his heavy black satin chimere, white puff-sleeved rochet, stole and academic hood in a private room along with the Church's Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, Bishop Joseph Marshall Francis of Indiana, Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California. All the bishops looked and felt hot, for the day was unseasonably muggy. In Nippert Stadium to watch the procession to the great altar were but 10,000 people, half the number for whom host Bishop Hobson's committee had provided transportation...
...ablest and most prosperous flea-trainers in the world is Jean Rochet of France. Last week in Paris he was negotiating with U. S. immigration and quarantine authorities for permission to take his educated fleas on a U. S. tour. In the course of telling his troubles to a U. S. newsgatherer, he made a pronouncement surprising to laymen: "I prefer the male flea, because he is more conscientious." Professor William Heckler, owner of Manhattan's largest flea-circus, disagrees with Jean Rochet. Professor Heckler uses mostly females in his acts. He finds that the male flea, which...
...Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere. And now the prelates laid on him their hands, the "Primus" hung upon his neck the pectoral cross, placed upon his finger a ring, and he was consecrated Bishop of Long Island...