Word: braver
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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British, Japanese, U. S. admirals alternated last week between fretful jeremiads over the nearly ratified London Naval Treaty and demands for more cruisers. Denmark was braver. The Danish navy contains just one cruiser, the Hejmdal, and four ironclads including the Niels Juel.* Minister of Defense Lauritz Rasmussen, confirming recent reports of intended "naval reduction," announced last week that the Hejmdal would be scrapped, the Niels Juel would probably be sold to the Chinese Nationalist government to fight river pirates...
...seemed to have nothing to do but play pool, which they did exuberantly 18 hours at a time in the basement of St. Mary's House. Speaking no English, they preferred to eat at cafeterias where it is possible to order by merely pointing. A few of the braver ate in service restaurants, but limited themselves entirely to Hamanex (ham & eggs) an order internationally understood since...