Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marchesa Marconi, wife of the Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, told of entering a room where her husband was conducting radio experiments. "My husband kissed me. I saw sparks leaping from his body and felt that I was burned under the right eye. That's the result of marrying a man who is always meddling with radio and electricity...
Because they are not his friends, Il Duce saw no reason for including among his "Immortals" the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi; the foremost Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce, or that orchidaceous but heroic poet-conqueror who stole Fiume for grateful Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio...