Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff of the Daily Express is the best paid in Fleet Street, and Christiansen says it has the hardest-working editor. He gets up at 8:30, reads the papers until 10, then makes for the bathroom. There he reads and shaves at the same time...
Like the masses who buy his paper, Christiansen enjoys soccer matches, boxing and dog racing. He berates his Fleet Street friends for their lack of the common touch. Says he: "You don't like these people, do you? You're out of touch with the common people." But in politics Christiansen walks the Beaverbrook line. The Express attacks the Labor Government and considers the American loan a disastrous mistake. (Prodding mercilessly away in the background is the wily, exacting Beaver. Says he: "So you want to know what makes Sammy [Christiansen] run, eh? Well, I do.") One reader...
...rarely gets to bed before 2 a.m. But last week, Stalin sent the world a soporific greeting (with a wakeful edge). Six British Laborites, led by pro-Communist M.P. Konni Zilliacus, visited Stalin at his seaside villa at Sochi (where he recently ended his triumphal inspection of the Soviet Fleet-see cut). To his callers, the Generalissimo said...
...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimifz went the honorary rank of chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan and the aboriginal monicker Be-Lea-Nage (The Winner). And to the nation from the Admiral went an announcement: he would retire from active duty around the middle of December...
There is also a rumor extant in these United States that he is the only player in the history of professional football ever to cover fleet touchdown making end Don Hutson along. Faced with this query, Bob was hard put to play himself down successfully. He explained that nobody ever covered Hutson alone...