Word: seadogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have all but stuck in the throat of such a life-long pacifist, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald announced last week in his official residence at snug No. 10 Downing Street a new big-navy policy for the British Empire. The announcement was a shining victory for that doughty seadog Admiral Earl Beatty who has clamored for the last four years that "Britain must free herself from the strangle hold of the London Naval Treaty" with the U. S. and Japan...
...them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual custodian of the Navy's airship program...
...Japanese Grand Fleet, stalwart Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, 56, will probably be on the bridge of his flagship Mutsu when next summer she leads nine other battleships, three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, 79 destroyers and 67 submarines to their rendezvous just north of the Equator. A trim, polite seadog who is fond of bridge, Admiral Kobayashi is well known in Washington where he once served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy...
...also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous old seadog who settles nearby. When Patriarch Hector Macrae dies soon after a terrible "rowing" to settle a family feud, Peter becomes patriarch in his stead, besets Fergus to his fall...
...staff in London. Four years ago he was a member of the U. S. delegation to the abortive Three-Power Naval Conference at Geneva. Small, bespectacled, suggesting the patient Taxpayer and Mr. We-the-People of newspaper cartoons, Admiral Schofield is a shrewd tactician, an astute little seadog whose record belies his looks. In the March maneuvers off Panama he commanded the attacking force which Chief of Naval Operations William Veazie Pratt, ranking officer ashore, last week pro nounced victorious...