Word: bespoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 20,000 American legioraries paraded in Paris, only 2,000 attended official functions and only two spoke officially. Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre. Doubtless aware that a large percentage of the legionaries in Paris last week were men who had not so much as got overseas during the War, Captain Piot wrote...