Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preparations for the annual manoeuvres of the U. S. Fleet were announced last week in Washington. Last year a portion of the fleet staged a sham attack on the Panama Canal from the Pacific with the remainder of the fleet defending the Canal. This year the plan is to test the ability of the Canal defenses to keep the Canal open for the passage of the Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic and the length of time required to concentrate the fleet in either ocean by means of the Canal...
...afford the cost; 2) that it would divert a large number of warships from other important points; 3) that it would provoke Japan, whose relationship with Great Britain is now of the friendliest character; 4) that it gave impetus to the Dutch plans for a large East Indian Fleet...
...TIME, Oct. 1). Women have not been admitted to the Order, but there was strong argument in the Capital in favor of asking His Majesty to add one or two women to the membership, which at present includes Field Marshal Lord French, Field Marshal Lord Haig; Admirals of the Fleet Lord Beatty, Sir Edward H. Seymour, Lord Jellicoe; Lords Balfour, Haldane, ex-Premier Lloyd George, Sir James Barrie, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Archibald Geikie, Thomas Hardy, Sir George Trevelyan, Sir J. J. Thomson...
...Real, the Naval Lieutenant, sternly devoted to duty, came to the farm and fell in love with its mistress, in spite of himself-how he told Peyrol his plot to delude the English blockading fleet by allowing them to capture certain forged despatches-how Scevola, mad with jealousy, planned to murder Real, and Real, mad with duty, thought the only way out of the pitiful tangle was to let himself be captured with the forged despatches and so leave Arlette forever-and how Peyrol calmly outwitted the lot of them, saved Real for Arlette, removed Scevola from the scene...
Then the 88 beauties were transported to Manhattan. They and their chaperones were housed on an entire floor of the Waldorf-Astoria. They were taken in a fleet of taxicabs to see the Acting Mayor. They were paraded, with three bands, up Fifth avenue. Then, in Madison Square Garden, famed scene of great fistic encounters, the 88 beauties assembled for the Mineralava Valentino Beauty Contest, afterwards known as The National Beauty Contest, while Valentino picked...