Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deck of the flagship Seattle, anchored last week in New York harbor, paced Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet. He paced for 45 minutes, waiting for the Honorable James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, to welcome him to the city. Tardy, debonair, Mr. Walker arrived, pursued by a battery of camera men. Inquired Admiral Hughes: "Does Mayor Walker go anywhere without his photographers ?" Answered Mayor Walker: "Well, the boys want a picture." Then Admiral Hughes asked: "How's the town?" Mayor Walker replied: "All right, now that...
...proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control. . . . Anyone may fly over Princeton-but if he lands here, and runs along the ground, we shall class his plane as a motor vehicle and return him and it to his parents...
Alexander I is one of the few monarchs still potent in affairs of state. He suddenly paid a visit to his father-in-law, King Ferdinand of Rumania. At the same time the French Mediterranean fleet concentrated off Rumania's chief port, Constanta, To excited correspondents it seemed that King Alexander might have asked for and received a French naval demonstration to remind Rumania not to fall in too closely with Premier Mussolini's plans...
...Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase will be a placard explaining again that they were varanus komodensis, giant monitor lizards, descendants of Mesozoic dinosaurs, nocturnal, rapaciously carnivorous, fleet of foot, deaf, strong enough to slay a horse...
...cigaret waved three times in the night blackness. . . Someone throws a switch and the Maine is blown up. Thus the film records the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Paramount discovered one Frank Hopper, book-agent, who looks like Theodore Roosevelt. He is shown ordering the mobilization of the fleet during the absence of his superior, Secretary of the Navy Long...