Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fake Sultan of Zanzibar, since become a British painter famed for his mild demeanor, was once accorded thunderous salutes and every other courtesy when he inspected the British fleet...
...violent language and gestures, and to two strong veins of poetry, lyric and satirical, he was adopted by descendants of the Pre-Raphaelite movement-as far as a wildish young man can be adopted. They liked his "splendid invective," fashioned after the Greeks. He carried them away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford...
...automotive fleet of the White House was added a Lincoln.* In it, the President and Mrs. Coolidge drove to Continental Memorial Hall, two blocks southwest of the White House...
Navy: Fifty-five ships of the Asiatic fleet, none larger than a cruiser, are commanded by Admiral C. S. Williams from his flagship, the armored cruiser Pittsburgh, at Shanghai. The destroyers Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed...
Marines attached to the Asiatic fleet swell U. S. manpower under arms in China...