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...properly to toast King Edward was the burden of a fleet order last week. Britain's Kings have been toasted by the King's officers sitting down since the days when Britain's wooden ships gave a man so little headroom between decks that he could not stand up at mess. Last week this rule was modified to the extent that when the King's toast is drunk with toasts to the heads of foreign States, all must be drunk standing...
Cried Sir Osmond Grattan Esmonde, pro-British Member from Waterford: "Since you know you cannot defend yourself with such a force, you are relying on the British fleet for protection...
Beginning in 1940, the picture voices Author Wells's current theory that another world war will start that year. The operations of that war and the destruction of Everytown, which looks very much like London, by a fleet of airplanes should throw a highly practical scare into contemporary audiences. The second portion of Things to Come contributes a reductio ad absurdum of Fascism which should cause it to be banned in Germany and Italy. The climax of the picture is an even more explicit description of a Wellsian Utopia than that foresighted author has ever divulged to his reading...
...maker, with $50 and groceries, blessed the captain's departure from Atlantic City for Palos, Spain, in a 14½-ft. sloop called the Sapolio. When Captain Andrews turned up at Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
...Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common." When Captain Horatio Nelson, on duty with the British Mediterranean Fleet, called at Naples, he was entertained at Sir William's. Emma made an indelible impression...