Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength, and no irony was lost in the trial for rape and the money-won acquittal...
Into the cold grey waters of the Gulf of Finland at Leningrad, last week, were launched two hulking freight boats. Each weighed 5,340 tons. Sister ships, they are two of the largest freighters in the built-in-Russia Soviet commercial fleet...
...contributed to a fund from which lawyers are richly fed when Club members get arrested. Every so often despatches tell that the Ever Loyals have held another unexpected, cataclysmic midnight convention in Berlin. Always on these occasions they appear in hired or stolen tuxedoes, cruising and boozing in a fleet of taxicabs. One night last week on Berlin's Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest, conventioning Hamburgers, quarreled, fought with guns and knives. It appeared that the shooting and knifing had begun-as such things will-with a wench, buxom Gretchen Schmaltz. Originally Fraulein...
...Ward Line's Havana-bound list was abruptly added, last week, the President Roosevelt. Alphabetically, the new ship fitted in between the Orizaba and the San Jacinto. Actually, it at once became the unofficial flagship of the Ward Line fleet, featured in every advertisement as offering "expedited service (fastest ever known) between New York and Havana...
...initial stanza was listless to the extreme, brightened only by occasional solo assaults by Paul, fleet Canadian defense player, and Jackson's defense of the goal. A few minutes before the period ended, Captain John Tudor '39 and M. N. Stanley '30 swept down the ice, narrowly missing sharp angle shots...