Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount and Fenway to all and sundry bears a definite stamp of of mediocrity. The chief picture, "Shipmates Forever,"concerns itself with the life of a downtrodden midshipman, personified by Dick Powell. As an ex-crooner goaded into enter the Academy by a navy father (chief of the fleet, no less) and family traditions, he suffers a severe lacing from the less musically-minded upperclassmen. Despite much bitterness of heart and loneliness, offset only by the presence of Ruby Keeler, he finally comes out topside and, as might be expected, is ready to and almost does, die for the dear...
...anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment of the capture of Veracruz. In the afternoon Navy's football team beat University of Virginia's, 26-to-7. In the evening the Academy...
...night the Hesperus wallowed deeper & deeper. Finally, as "the billows frothed like yeast" over her deck, the sailors gave up the struggle, tumbled into nine dories, headed for the open sea in hope of encountering the fleet at the fishing grounds. Day later they did so, were picked up suffering only from exposure...
...feet of brass it has "trampled down Spain, Holland, France and Germany." Asks Unofficial Observer: "Who will be next? America? Japan? Russia?" This colossus is deathly ill, "weary in every cell," its clay head aching with the problem of preventing war or disorder in Europe which would immobilize the fleet while "the great duel between the white and the yellow races is fought...
Britain's refusal to withdraw her fleet from the Mediterranean leads one to ponder on the exact status of what we have always been brought up to regard as the greatest navy of all time. Never before in modern history has the Admiralty been faced with a situation comparable to that now on its hands. For the first time the power of the British navy is definitely in question. The Mediterranean fleet is far superior to the Italian force in gross tonnage, but the Fascist ships are in an extremely strong position and are vastly more mobile...