Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eggshell Debate. A major Anglo-U. S. point of contention last week, was whether, if the British proposal to limit cruiser guns to a six-inch bore were adopted, the British could transform their fast merchant fleet overnight into a cruiser fleet by mounting these little guns on the Mauretania, Majestic, Berengaria, Olympic...
Since then Mr. Blumenfeld has become, if not a "power," at least a virile, pungent force in Fleet Street, which he described, last week, as "that street of golden adventure which has been so long my home...
...Army has found himself invited to assume control of a great industrial enterprise, has smoothly, easily shifted over from camp to conference, from aides to stenographers. Major General James G. Harbord became president of the Radio Corp. of America; Brigadier General Albert C. Dalton became president of the Emergency Fleet Corp.; last week Major General Robert Courtney Davis, Adjutant General of the U. S. Army, announced his retirement, effective July 1, to become president of Photomaton...
...Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...
...smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...