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...exploit my work (I have ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight during Cowes Week and at her command I kept her in constant touch with H. R. H. Edward (VII) of Wales on the royal yacht, Osborne. I spanned the English Channel by wireless that year; extended the range up to 74 miles for messages between...
...Pulaski County, Ky., Teacher Bertha Mize of the Short Creek School, thirsty, drew herself a glass of water from the school cooler. It looked, she thought, a little queer. The water seemed cloudy. Lifting the cooler lid, she was startled by a puff of smoke. None of the 70 pupils had taken a drink yet that morning, so none was poisoned by what authorities judged to be sulphuric acid dumped into the cooler by the same malcontent or malcontents who two days prior had smashed the school window panes and electric lights. Between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists of that countryside, suspicion...
...Everyday People." Each monograph is loaded with domestic BB shot, aimed at the human race, fired regardless of target. The chapter headings, "How a Husband Likes to be Treated," "Charm," "Have a Goal," "The Goat Family," "Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen in their philosophical moments, if sufficiently steeped in journalese and colloquialisms, might have written these same little pills of advice. Hence, countless readers will grin sheepishly and mutter...
...preponderance of power can easily be obtained by any single sovereign hold enough, whenever occasion demands, to make the matrimonial venture. The above problems are, however, trivial compared with the various domestic difficulties that will unquestionably arise. For it is, indeed, doubtful if any prince now living possesses those queer qualities of genius of Brigham Young...
...queer thing that I never tire of talking to you, whereas I've remarkably little to say to my husband...