Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English have considered the Italians as a gay, picturesque and agreeable people," continued II Duce. "It has never come into the English mind until recently that Italy could have a will of her own and a complete independence in regard to England. . . " Since Britain assured Italy officially that her fleet concentration in the Mediterranean is not anti-Italian (TIME, Oct. 7), the Dictator urged that tension be eased by withdrawing some British ships, indicated that he was ready in return to withdraw some Italian troops from Libya where they have been said to menace the British position in Egypt...
...Caesars. All the same, Kaiser Wilhelm II became a "beastly Hun" for some years to his cousin George V, and Benito Mussolini was rapidly becoming even worse last week to English newspaper readers of whom none is more inveterate than His Majesty. In the catch-phrase of Fleet Street's more blatant organs, "Mussolini is out-Hunning the Huns...
...board Italian Bombing Fleet over Addle Ababa, by special wireless, collect, to the CRIMSON...
Japan winds up this week her Grand Naval Maneuvers and sea exercises of all sorts which have been going on since July 20. In the first phase, "fleet training.'' nobody was killed. In the second phase, "target practice," seven sailors met Death in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara. Then the fleet disappeared for five weeks of Grand Maneuvers in North Pacific waters...
...This Be Treason (by Rev. John Haynes Holmes & Reginald Lawrence; Theatre Guild, producer). On the evening of the inauguration of U. S. President John Gordon, internationally celebrated pacifist, the Japanese Fleet captures Manila. With malice toward none, President Gordon attributes the onslaught to an insulting ultimatum his bellicose predecessor, President Brainard, has sent Japan in the closing hours of his Administration. To the amazement of his Cabinet, to the disgust of a Congress which has apparently been bribed to a man by munitions interests, President Gordon orders every U. S. warship in the Pacific hot-footing home, invites the Japanese...