Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno, Nev., Mrs. Pearl Marconi, Indian squaw, spent a night in tippling, presented her papoose to a friendly Negress, went to city jail, demanded a bed to sleep...
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wire less, Senator and Marchese of Italy, builder of station HVJ, great & good friend of His Holiness, fell to his knees, kissed the papal ring. The Pope was smiling, showed traces of excitement. The Mar chese Marconi and entourage entered the small building over a thick red-and-blue carpet. Whimsically His Holiness threw in switches which set electrical devices in motion; he tapped a wireless key, punched a teletypewriter's keys, proceeded to the transmitting room where from a throne he spoke to All Creation...
...saying and with his ineffable little smile, the Supreme Pontiff threw an electric switch to inaugurate Vatican City's new electric lighting plant. Senator Guglielmo Marconi was present. The Pope recalled that when he was ordained a priest, the Vatican was dimly lit in some places by gas jets but chiefly by candles...
...refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days...
Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife...