Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatherly advice. In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded the British light cruiser Devonshire. With the crew lining the rails at attention, the Devonshire snaked its way through the great armada of British warships jamming Alexandria harbor, made the 124-mile run to Port Said. There the crew manned ship again; a royal salute was fired; the little prince went down the captain's gangway to board the P. & 0. liner Strathaird for Britain and the life of a British...
...proves that, despite the blatant propaganda of our navalists terrorising Congress into giving them a bigger navy, Japan has no thought of annexing the Philippines and sending an armada to attack San Francisco. he proves that, despite the cheap haranguing of sensational newspapers, Japanese labor cannot compete against American labor in this country, even if we were to abolish tariffs altogether. he proves that, despite the world's anti-imperialistic sympathies, the end justified the means in the case of his country's going into Manchuria...
...ready for the "Fly Past" over Duxford. This was made at the unusually high altitude for an air force review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons less with pride than fear. The great throng at the climax of the "Fly Past" seemed stricken dumb. Sober faces were eloquent of what everyone was thinking: "These are our planes, but they might be Germany...
...sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked out to the ears, primps in a mirror, turns her back on the Spanish Armada...
Last week, with the U. S. Pacific armada war-gaming nearer Japan than ever before, with U. S. textile men tearing their hair about a Japanese commercial invasion, with William Randolph Hearst pumping the U. S. full of what a shame it is that all sorts of Japanese goods sell so cheap, the two nations continued to offer each other the handclasp of friendship in many a place and many a different...