Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning "the biggest fleet of sight-seeing busses ever allowed to pass Buckingham Palace gates" carried the legionnaries to their Majesties' home...
This year T. P. ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 79, M. P. and a veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide...
...visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject for the time being, he would rise and say to Boswell: "Come, let us walk along Fleet Street...
...assassination at Sarajevo found him an officer in the Kaiser's navy, but it was not until 1916 that his voyage upon the auxiliary cruiser. Seeadler took him through the midst of the British North Seas Fleet into the Atlantic shipping lanes...
Tomlinson has been a fleet street newspaper man for a decade. Back in 1910 he accompanied an expedition to explore the further reaches of the Amazon. In the tramp steamer "The Capella", the party penetrated to the last thousand miles of the tropical river, which was the first time the feat had been accomplished. Tomlinson told the story in his "Sea and the Jungle", which appeared in 1910 and the first editions of which are now selling at $75 a copy...