Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon a press photograph that brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors and bawds carousing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive...
Last week Secretary Swanson examined the Cadmus work for himself. Scratching his chin and tilting his head he remarked: "Right artistic but not true to the Navy." Thereupon Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt whisked The Fleet's In away to his Q Street home. "It's out of sight," said he, "and will continue to be out of sight...
...Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready a fleet of fast motorboat patrols to catch the heavy-engined sampans from the north...
...Paul Cadmus of New York took the Government shilling and turned out a painting entitled "The Fleet's In." It is alleged to show the jolly tars rolling about with harlots and booze, in the popular tradition of all good sailors on shore leave. It was judged good enough to be given a place in the cross-section of CWA art to be displayed at the Corcoran gallery in Washington...
...successfully complete the course are given the designation "Naval Aviators" and receive commissions as Ensigns in the U. S. Naval Reserve or as Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and may be ordered to active duty. Those in the Naval Reserve take their active duty with the Fleet, usually on an aircraft carrier, while the Marine Corps Reservists serve with the Marine Expeditionary Forces at Quantico, Virginia, or San Diego, California...