Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, a new mailcarrier entered the Government service, a thin, slightly wizened little man of 62 with graying hair. He was no man for arduous marches in extremes of weather. But he had not undertaken his job because of the stoutness of his legs and constitution. He had a fleet of aeroplanes, a corps of pilots. He had contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met at Cleveland by a fleet of Army pursuit planes. Unloading, loading, it soon...
Edward of Wales patted the sleek chestnut flanks of his favorite hunter, a fleet and mettlesome mount named "Oh, Dear." Vaulting into his saddle he nodded to the Duke of Rutland and set off after the latter's famed Belvoir hounds. A lengthy chase ensued, in which "Oh, Dear" and Edward swooped over many a hazard, galloped at full tilt across the downs of Melton Mowbray, distanced His Grace of Rutland completely...
...cable from Sydney, New South Wales, announced that the local government had decided to send to President Coolidge a painting of the U. S. fleet as it lay in Sydney harbor last summer. A committee in charge decided to inquire whether a canvas 84 by 60 feet could be cared for in the Capitol...
Since Dictator Pangalos declared that he was about to provide Greece with a fleet "dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean" when he seized the Government (TIME Jan. 11), his declaration last week that "this loan will not be expended on armaments" was regarded with profound suspicion...
...military and naval men at Athens. Amid the popping of champagne corks, Premier Pangalos arose and proclaimed himself the head of an absolute dictatorship over Greece: "Henceforth, with the help of the Army and Navy, I will govern as dictator. Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, and the strongest army in the Balkans...