Word: fleetly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this case on account of the disadvantageous conditions. The Bellboys followed the Anglers at about one and one-half lengths with a time of 7.23; the Kirkland oarsmen trailed them by three-quarters of a length, turning in a time of 7.26; and the Rabbits drove the whole fleet across the finish in 7.28, a half-length behind the third boat...
...Fleet had just ended its two-year vigil in the Pacific by a cruise down the West Coast and a mimic attack on Panama Bay. Thousands of officers and men were on shore leave, pending a leisurely fortnight's "fleet march" through the Canal, when Admiral David Foote Sellers, Fleet Commander, suddenly decided: "The presence of the Fleet at the Canal . . . presents an excellent opportunity to execute a movement involving rapid transit such as might be necessary in case of emergency...
While 15,000 bluejackets swarmed ashore at Colon to celebrate their delayed leave, the Tokyo Press, aware that all U. S. naval strategy centres around Panama Canal operations, sneered at "the American Fleet's failure," declared that "passage through the canal in 24 hr. has been proved impossible...
...upon a press photograph that brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors and bawds carousing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive...
Last week Secretary Swanson examined the Cadmus work for himself. Scratching his chin and tilting his head he remarked: "Right artistic but not true to the Navy." Thereupon Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt whisked The Fleet's In away to his Q Street home. "It's out of sight," said he, "and will continue to be out of sight...