Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have gone along all these years believing that I saw from the forward fire control of the U.S.S. Florida the surrender of the German fleet off the Firth of Forth on Nov. 21, 1918. I had a distinct recollection of shivering at four o'clock of a November morning and trying to analyze an empty feeling in my stomach as I looked down on turrets swinging menacingly toward the swift grey streaks on the horizon that were the Hindenberg, the Seydlitz, the von der Tann, etc., of the Imperial German Navy...
...TIME has set me right, and I am grateful. It all happened at Scapa Flow, under the lonely kirk spire at Kirkcaldy. By any chance, do you suppose, was it at Scapa Flow that the Germans scuttled their fleet after waiting under the guns of the Grand Fleet to find out what the Peace Conference would...
TIME, Feb. 8, p. 36, the German High Seas Fleet surrendered to the Grand Fleet, not at Scapa Flow, but in the Firth of Forth. I know, because I was there...
TIME erred. Seven months after the surrender in Firth of Forth came the scuttling at Scapa Flow, where the High Seas Fleet was interned...
...This sort of speculative booking had by last week pretty well "filled" the Queen Mary, Paris and Bremen-all of which sail from Manhattan at just the right time for last-minute Coronation fans in a hurry-but the Cunard White Star Line is taking practically its whole fleet out of Manhattan at that time and unquestionably good accommodation is still plentiful. In this or any other year, actual decision to go abroad should of course be followed by "Booking Early" for best, cheapest cabins...