Word: calypsos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy all day over the far reaches of Penobscot Bay, had gradually lifted and faded; about 3 o'clock the watchers saw the top-heavy, bulging, comfortable Presidential yacht coming around the breakwater, could see beyond it the escorting Coast Guard cutter Calypso, sleek, dangerous, moving like a loafing shark...
...vast 40,000-mile theatre stretching from Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea. Commanding the British naval forces based on Alexandria was Vice Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, who last week had to report the torpedoing of the anti-aircraft cruiser Calypso, apparently during action against Italy's Libyan base at Tobruch. His ships sank several Italian submarines and the old cruiser San Giorgio remodeled for coast defense. The British said they were mining the approaches to Venice and the waters around Italy's heel...
Walter Winchell (George Clark; Varsity). A Calypso tribute from "The Duke of Iron," comparable to "The Lion's" recent bow to Bing Crosby (TIME, July...