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After some spectacular maneuvers off Capri, the cruisers Fiume and Zara opened up against the radio-controlled target cruiser San Marco, firing live 8-inch shells at a range of eleven miles. An airplane circling above the target ship radioed to the Conte di Cavour that "the third salvo of shells hit the target squarely." Two planes then blotted out the San Marco with a smoke screen like the drawing of a quick curtain...
...last a terrific salvo of bombs stopped everything. "It's the Mayor. Hooray!" "Three cheers for the Mayor," shouted the Legionnaires. "Everybody...
...sped toward the runway leading to their own cages. The crowd that packed Manhattan's cavernous Hippodrome one night last week was up in its seats, streaming toward the exits past the array of jabbering freaks in the lobby. And ducking into the wings with the last salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head...
...After two years in England Togo got back to Japan to find that his superiors had let no barnacles grow on their keels, either. Before he was 40, Togo was captain in an up-&-coming navy. In the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) it was Togo who fired the salvo that was Japan's declaration of war. But the first incident that got him international headlines was not pretty. He halted a Chinese troopship, ordered the soldiers to take to the boats, sank the ship when they refused, made no attempt to rescue them. At the Battle...
...both occasions in sarcastic and, for him, spectacular fashion. Amid a loyal salvo of applause, he began: "This issue of America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject-the fiscal policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund...