Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Morro Castle was smaller than most transatlantic liners, her 21-knot speed and sumptuous appointments put her in the deluxe class on the New York-Havana run. Her master, Robert R. Willmott, 31 years in service, was Commodore of the Ward Line fleet...
Abruptly, while all Taku watched with Adam's apples bobbing, the Japanese war boats split into two fleets, began an extremely realistic war game in China's front yard. Fleet No. 1 "defended" the Chinese port as if it were already part of Japan's Empire. Fleet No. 2 "attacked." In shame and humiliation the helpless captains of the few rickety Chinese war boats tied up at Taku went down into their cabins for a pipeful of the stuff that cheers...
Chipper Japanese officers said when they came ashore: "Our naval exercises are part of a program which necessarily places control of the approaches of North China with the Japanese fleet." When timid Chinese newsorgans murmured that Japan's war games were interfering with Chinese shipping, the Japanese commander snorted "Ridiculous...
Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, who took half his title from the waters where he fought the Battle of Jutland, half from the Leicestershire estate where he rides to hounds, announced that the estate, 13th Century Brooksby Hall, was up for sale...
...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...