Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magician has waved his wand! Now there is no fleet here at all! No damned fleet at all, damme...
...less than 24 hours "The fleet is all lit up!" had become the joyful cry of all Britain. Undergraduates, shopgirls, peers, clubmen and pub-crawlers were repeating, "The fleet is all lit up!" ad nauseam...
...whole fleet is lit up!-er-by lights! It is like fairyland. The ships are covered by fairy lights. . . . Even the destroyers are lit up! The big boats...
Shrewdest of all were the advertising directors of United Kingdom Tobacco Co., makers of "Grey's" cigarets, a somewhat swank but inexpensive brand. In 48 hours London newspapers appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion...
...MarchElgar *"Fete-Dieu a Seville" from "Iberia" Albeniz-Arbos *"Country Gardens" Grainger *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mikado," Selection Sullivan *"Londondery Air" Arranged by Grainger *The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked...