Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time before today. . . . We can lead it again. We headed the procession when it took . . . the wrong turning. ... It is for us to find the way out again, into the sunlight...
...mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions, his second novel, freed him from Fleet Street. Once a widower and twice married, he has a family of five daughters, one son. Pudgy, slow-spoken, pipe-smoking. Author Priestley is an apotheosis of the sensible self-made British author...
...years as a member of the Naval Affairs Committee, Representative James V. McClintic, senior member of the Oklahoma Delegation, used to harp on the shortcomings of the U. S. fleet. Land-locked Oklahoma tired of his harpings long before he was transferred to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week he was defeated for renomination by a Cordell lawyer named Sam Massingale...
Common Sense, loaned to her Honolulu Ad Club crew after a collision had wrecked their own ship, was the smallest boat in the fleet-27 ft. over all. Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi...
...little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand. On his way back to Spain his ship was captured by Algerian corsairs. In Algiers, Cervantes spent five years in prison, made four unsuccessful attempts to escape, was finally ransomed...