Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed that he had been unable to grasp more of his teacher's glowing intelligence as yet unmatched by any pupil...
Died. Lucy Maria Delano Hughes, 92, mother of Charles Frederick Hughes, commander in chief of the United States battle fleet; in Bath...
...tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning. From the shore he looked out at the midget fleet, already almost invisible on the quiet swell...
...drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution. He tried to comfort 200 members of their families, and he listened to an improbable story which was being told in all the villages. Some fishermen said that early in the week a white ship had overtaken their fleet in Baffin Bay. Making no answer to their hails, she had lingered near their boats until the sunrise, vanishing then in a flash of light. Terrified, the men in the little boats had put for home before a gathering wind; warned of disaster, they had stayed ashore the night of the storm...
...reticent, secretive, reserved" and that he deliberately withheld information from his monarch. On one occasion he wrote to Premier Asquith asking him to tell Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, now Chairman of the Midland Bank, that it was "his duty to keep His Majesty informed of fleet movements, to say nothing of common courtesy...