Word: strong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scurrilous story had it that the love affair began last summer. The strong-willed "mother-in-law of the Balkans," Queen Marie, discovered it and Ileana's "cherub," one Paius, was sent posthaste back to his ship in the Black...
Free again, the love-mad young lad fled with his bien aimee to Bulgaria, whence the runaway Princess was brought back to Bucharest under strong guard at the request of Queen Marie, who drove through the streets with her to still the rumors of her elopment. After this Princess Ileana is supposed to have tried to kill herself (means unspecified...
...Eric H. Palmer of Brooklyn liked, talked, tinkered with and wrote about radio for several years. He taught it to Eric H. Palmer Jr., 16, his "strong, straight-shouldered" son. He bought Eric H. Palmer Jr. a transmitting set; helped him get an operator's license (2 ATZ) from the Federal Radio Commission; rejoiced in Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s ambition to become "sparks"* on a steamship...
...well understand your keen interest in this most marvelous invention with its great possibilities. Those of us who were pioneers will soon be forced to turn the reins of radio over to you boys, and we want you to be strong and healthy, as the burden will undoubtedly increase as new avenues for radio are opened up by you and your colleagues. "This is a marvelous field for the American boy, and such enthusiasm as you have displayed should as a rule be commended rather than discouraged, but in order to develop into a big, strong, healthy boy you must...
...grisly finger of suspicion at nearly everybody and finally solves the situation by showing that there was a radio transmitter in the room when the murder happened, and the police were listening intently all the time. All this produces an alternating current of shiver and laugh, but none too strong a current...