Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road under pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached...
Beginning in 1940, the picture voices Author Wells's current theory that another world war will start that year. The operations of that war and the destruction of Everytown, which looks very much like London, by a fleet of airplanes should throw a highly practical scare into contemporary audiences. The second portion of Things to Come contributes a reductio ad absurdum of Fascism which should cause it to be banned in Germany and Italy. The climax of the picture is an even more explicit description of a Wellsian Utopia than that foresighted author has ever divulged to his reading...
...maker, with $50 and groceries, blessed the captain's departure from Atlantic City for Palos, Spain, in a 14½-ft. sloop called the Sapolio. When Captain Andrews turned up at Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
...Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common." When Captain Horatio Nelson, on duty with the British Mediterranean Fleet, called at Naples, he was entertained at Sir William's. Emma made an indelible impression...
...future lovers did not meet again until Nelson had lost an eye and an arm and won world-wide fame by demolishing the French fleet in Aboukir Bay. Then the Hero of the Nile led his fleet into the Bay of Naples, and there he stayed, in spite of the welcome (and the patient wife) awaiting him at home, in spite of hints and finally orders from his superior officers. When a French-abetted revolution broke out in Naples, Nelson transported the court and the Hamiltons to Sicily. When the revolution faded out he brought them back again, helped...