Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...full measure there is a skit, "Aix and Pains", well worth reprinting from the American Field Service Bulletin, and the usual quota of editorials and announcements...
...French army is learning baseball rapidly. They like for its speed and excitement, but they have found American terms very difficult. A poilu simply cannot wrap his tongue around such words as "catcher", "base hit", and "umpire...
...Soldiers' and Sailors' Club of Paris has prepared and issued a "Code Simplifie du Baseball", which renders the tongue-twisting American phrases into French. The Code "Simplifie" was first put into use recently in the Bois de Boulogne between the American Signal Disbursing team and the Triple A's. The "Code" was distributed to the French-speaking spectators. Boston Traveler...
...along here that all the fighting is now going on in which the American troops are taking part. It was a difficult task that had been given them--to clear the Argonne Forest of Germans, but it has been done at a great cost. However, the fighting is now in the open and things ought to go on more rapidly...
Although hostilities have ceased in Europe, the truck drivers sent over by the American Red Cross will be still kept at work for an indefinite period, covering at least a year. Their work will consist largely in transporting food and clothing to the poor in the districts evacuated by the Germans, and in aiding generally in the reconstruction work...