Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody is more punctilious than a punctilious German. For civilians last week formal morning clothes and high hats were absolutely de rigueur at the launching of the new German super-cruiser or "pocket dreadnought" Deutschland. To the christening of this ship, not by a woman but by President Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von HINDENBURG himself, 56,000 persons had been invited and held 56,000 cards of admission...
...drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials, was just Cruiser...
Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
Owing to strict governmental economy and to the reduction of naval armaments the Arkansas is the only cruiser which will be available for much work this summer...
...been very fortunate in securing again the services of Mr. Edward P. Goodnow '17, who directed its production of A. A. Milne's "Success" last year. Mr. Goodnow has given this difficult play his usual sympathetic and capable direction. The scenes staged on "the forebridge of a British light cruiser," which constitute Act II, must in prospect have been disheartening. The result is as realistic and tense an act as the amateur theatre in these parts has been privileged to see in many moons...