Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Earl Jellicoe of the War-time exploits of the German raider Berlin-exploits which correspondents often described, during the War, only to have their despatches "killed" by Allied censors. Lord Jellicoe admitted, last week, that the Berlin once ducked unperceived through eight battle squadrons of the British Grand fleet and proceeded to lay mines which later sank the potent British battle cruiser Audacious...
...cruisers we are asked to take would give us a woolly-lamb fleet, a kitten fleet...
...destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia slowly began to take water last week from an unrevealed cause, then sank. Bolivians are vexed because their country has no seaport, being completely surrounded by Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and (completing the clockwise circle) Chile. Everyone knows that a solution urged by the U. S. State Department...
Australia was being invaded by a fleet of hostile airplanes, said Station 5-CL. The planes had just been sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered...
Nominally the banquet was "to celebrate the completion of Blum's 40 years in Fleet Street...