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...Manhattan. This extensive movement of onetime troops, now heroes, took Manhattan for its chief point of departure. Following a banquet and speeches, the Legion's leaders boarded the S. S. Leviathan, flagship of an armada which sailed with informal peacetime' fanfare...
...four men in a fog inflated their pneumatic tub, paddled 200 yards to the shore of the little fishing village of Ver-sur-Mer, where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
Clearly the Coolidge Adminstration and the Baldwin Cabinet knew, last week, that John Chinaman is at last completely out of hand. The U. S. was further burdened with responsibility when it was noted that, Admiral Williams outranks all other officers of the foreign armada patroling Chinese waters ? "the greatest armada assembled since the World War." Mobs, large or small, menaced the foreigner in almost every Chinese city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow...
...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...
...bobbing head. Without hesitation she dived into the roaring brine. With long, strong strokes, she propelled herself to the bobbing head, which she discovered to belong to a woman. As the drowner was about to sink, Signorina Mussolini grabbed her, managed to keep her afloat until an armada of rowboated rescuers arrived...