Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marriage for the King of Italy's rich daughter; the Savoy family is very wealthy. But, owing to King Victor Emmanuel's hatred of social life and his insistence on a domestic life much more secluded than that of his subjects, his daughters, the Italian princesses, have grown up rather wild in their ways, with a hatred of the trammels of society; the fact is, they have not been trained to take their places in society as leaders at all, and the King is very much embarrassed about this. He was obliged to consent to his eldest daughter...
...lady grown far over...
Four years ago Montenegro was joined to Yugo-Slavia? Ever since, Montenegrin Nationalists have grown weaker as they protested the union. Last week they were considered to have become so impotent that King Alexander and Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia be?believed it safe to visit Cetinje, the capital of Montenegro...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator. His mother was with him but she is a great...
Many railroads depend for their prosperity on the crops grown in their particular area. Thus there are "wheat" railroads, "cotton" railroads, "corn" railroads. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is unique in depending for its destinies on the potato...