Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still careful never to employ so coarse a word as "legs," Manchester's inimitable Guardian published recently the following despatch, dated not from "London" but meticulously from "Fleet Street" in London...
Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic. Both face stern competition from the French Line, the North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late...
Dignified President Lebrun had key-noted at a luncheon preceding the thunder clouds: "Our merchant marine is regaining its full strength. A big commercial fleet is necessary in such a colonial empire as ours-scattered over the four corners of the earth...
Another mob, this one of out-&-out Communists, scrimmaged one night in Fleet Street with Sir Oswald Moseley and 100 of his black-shirted British Fascists. Police dispersed them...
...Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal gun on the prow of the cutter, and an instant later the towering schooner was headed into the wind, her tops' I canvas rattling like the sound of cannon on high...