Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story discusses a young aviator with a bad heart and too much imagination who went to War, funked his duty, was driven to it, crippled himself for life getting his Boche. There is also a girl who decided with difficulty between him and the vigorous captain of the squadron. The second act of the play brings the drama of war on the lines into intense, if slightly conventional, relief. The locale of the other acts is on Long Island. College men bandy injudiciously selected slang and punch each other to display affection. Winifred Lenihan gave her usual flawless performance...
Instead of crossing the Sound at Greenwich or Rye, the squadron pro ceeded into Westchester, was met by many more welcoming planes. Man hattanites rushed into the streets as a veritable air armada swarmed over Greater New York, followed Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the Battery. The homecomers were distinguished in a compact trio at the center of the swarm...
International 6-metre yacht racing began in 1921. The British Royal Yacht Squadron offered a trophy. U. S. skippers took their craft to Cowes, sailed wild races in the gales and heavy seas of the Solent, suffered overwhelming defeat. The 1922 races were sailed on Long Island Sound before light summer breezes, the U. S. winning 111 points to 104. Last August, the squadrons met off the Isle of Wight and the British won, 129 points...
This year, U. S. 6-metre mariners launched a squadron of eight new boats, pitted them against ten older barks to determine which four were fleetest. After four days of trial tacking on Long Island Sound, last week, a selection committee, composed of Gherardi Davis and Philip R. Mallory (New York), Robert W. Emmons and J. Emmons II (Boston), named the following...
...Frederick Field, K.C.B., Admiral in command of the squadron that paid a three-day visit to San Francisco during the past week, telegraphed from his flagship, H. M. S. Hood, greatest battle cruiser afloat, that all the ships under his command would have their liquor stores sealed during the visit, as an act of courtesy to the American people...