Word: britannia
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...Advance, Britannia...
...pour their troubles into Grycie's willing ears. One night last week two tars insisted on escorting her from her hotel to the broadcasting studio, explaining that back in England they had never got a close-up of her. Sighs Gracie: "I guess they think I'm Britannia...
...greatest news for seagoing Britannia was First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander's recent reports that naval losses suffered since the war began have been replaced, and that in some categories the Navy has grown in size and power. Newest battleships to join the fleet: the Anson and Howe, mighty 35,000-ton vessels, each carrying ten 14-in. guns. As to merchantmen, the First Lord proudly reported that Britain still produces "more tons of shipping per man than they do with all the modern methods in America...
...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...added barb: Wagner's own granddaughter, Friedelind, introducing Britannia, said: "Wagner wrote [it] because he loved and admired the spirit of the British people. . . . However, he did not write a Get -mania to glorify the German spirit. He wrote the Twilight o/ the Gods...