Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company, since known as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd., to 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...
...married, my wife becoming a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elena, which post she seldom filled since our three children became a great care and besides, she used to accompany me everywhere on my yacht, Elettra, aboard which I experimented much. The year 1905 also found me perfecting and patenting a horizontal directional transmitting aerial and predicting that I could soon reach the antipodes more easily than nearby places. 1905 was also notable for me as the year of my company's suit against the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co. (Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently...
...Senator Marconi is no laboratory-hugging genius like the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz or Thomas Alva Edison. He hunts the fox, rides the bicycle, dines at his club, has parties of young people aboard his yacht. In conquering a new world he has not lost...
...Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett has led an industrious, unspectacular life since being born 59 years ago among the potteries of Staffordshire. Everything interests him, especially humble, "uninteresting" people. His published books and plays, persistently captivating, now number over two score. He has a French wife, steam yacht...
...Duvall but with a man who had kept half a dozen Indiana Mayors in his pay, a man who had controlled the lower house of the State legislature, who had ruled the state constabulary and the highway police, who had kept an airplane with a gilded snout, a private yacht on Buckeye Lake, who had given parties modeled on those of the later Caesars, who had said-his thin voice rising to a shriek in a drunken and lascivious party-"I am the counterpart of Napoleon, the master mind of all the world. Drink her down." He was dealing with...