Word: torpedoed
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...years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height, grey-haired Admiral Standley is regarded as "swell" by the elevator boy and telephone operator of his Long Beach, Calif, apartment house. His son & namesake is in charge of the torpedo school at the San Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval man. New commander of the U. S. Fleet will be Vice Admiral David Foote Sellers of Texas, who was President Theodore Roosevelt's naval aide, has fought and won medals all over...
...group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation of more than the usual eight anti-aircraft guns. Other ordnance: nine 8-in. guns in three turrets; eight 5-in. guns; six torpedo tubes. She also carries four planes...
...hears her father has been killed in the War, Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford) makes the acquaintance of an exceedingly tactless young American who has come to England to rent her house. Shortly after she has sent her brother, Ronnie, and her fiance. Claude, off to man a torpedo-launch together on the coast of France, she finds out that she really loves not Claude (Robert Young) but the American, Richard Bogard (Gary Cooper). The troubles that arise from this situation are what you might expect in the first contribution to cinema by gloomy Author William Faulkner...
...Author Faulkner's fictions a property which his mannerisms have caused his admirers to under-emphasize: an exciting story, with emotional content fit for mass consumption, sharply imagined and compactly told. Director Hawks, always at his best when dealing with dangerous machinery, makes the voyages of the torpedo-launch the most exciting sequences. Good shot: the funeral, with candles on a bar and a matchbox for a coffin, of Wellington, Ronnie's fighting cockroach...
...personally directed the fire of almost all the 288 field guns allotted Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. London will get as naval attaché Captain Erwin Wassner who commanded a submarine in the English Channel, won a decoration from All Highest Wilhelm II for his smart torpedo work...