Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lone night watches on the bridge, five-hour stretches in the engine-room with the temperature at 116 degrees Fahrenheit, systematic investigation and study of the innards of a light cruiser and the workings of those innards, were part of the program outlined for the members of the Naval Science Unit from the University who took a brief cruise down the Atlantic seaboard early last summer...
...days later, at the Toulon Naval Prison, twelve Communist prisoners, armed mysteriously with picks and other handy tools, broke loose and liberated nearly 100 other prisoners. Marching around the prison they bawled: "Down with the Army!" "Long live Marty...
Prison wardens were helpless. Outside the gates 200 workers sang the "Internationale." Soon a call to the naval authorities brought a detachment of naval gendarmes on the run. Soon the mutineers were rounded up, placed in trucks, driven to greater security in the prison annex at nearby Malbousquet; police dispersed the chanting workers...
...dazzling maze of intrigue and outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones...
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