Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guest cabins, a Japanese tea house, an open-air theatre, two bowling alleys, tennis courts, a billiard cabin, stables, two garages, a superintendent's house, a gardener's house, a greenhouse, a storehouse, cabins for 24 servants, two boathouses and a chicken house. There are also a fleet of boats and fishing for speckled and lake trout, black bass and great northern pike. The whole is situated a mile and a half from the Manhattan-Montreal highway, three miles from the railroad, 14 miles from Saranac, 20 miles from Lake Placid, 30 miles from Canada, 70 miles from...
...After a heavy bombardment, the French advanced to new positions north of Ouezzan and along the Taza front. Meanwhile French airplanes bombed Tarquist, Krim's onetime stronghold. 3) The Spanish fleet continued to steam up and down the Riffian coast, pot-shotted...
Cocky little boats with pale sails, maneuvering this way and that on quiet water like a fleet of river butterflies, swerved at the sound of a gun and passed between a committee yacht and a red buoy, putting out of Larchmont harbor into Long Island Sound. They were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas...
White Truck Roll Call. Annually the White Co. of Cleveland publishes its "Roll Call" of White truck owners, a veritable roster of the greatest U. S. industrial concerns. This year the roll runs so long-961 fleets including 35,755 trucks-that only the owners of ten or more machines can be listed. About as many owners again remain anonymous, owning only nine or less trucks. The Gulf Refining Co. has the largest White fleet-1929; the Associated Bell Telephone Co. next-1420; the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. third-1032. This year, as the roll call presented last...
...gray goose, the barking golden eagle, the fleet azure kingfisher, the white triangles of lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains...