Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three wise men of the East are looking up at something on the front cover of the new Lampoon. It may be the bomb bursting in air or merely the printed legend, "Christmas Number," but there is something worth looking over anyway. The front cover is rather impressive, by the way--much better in its colors of red and blue and its unusual theme than a "Merry Xmas" affair, done in the orthodox red and green. Not a holly leaf in sight, either. You take the laurel sprig for this num- ber, Lampy...
Editorially the Illustrated true to the general spirit of wartime unrest presents the unexpected and wanders into that ever dangerous political field. "Them is harsh words", editor; as "Tommy" says, as the Boche bomb lies at a distance unexploded "there might be something in it', but wouldn't it be a little more like "the thing" to figure that "c'est la guerre." Since the war started Lloyd George has shipped all London's red tape to "blighty" or as that Guy Empey might say, "west"; south would be more to the correct atmospheric direction. One half of the classes...
Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey of the British Army, author of the famous war book "Over the Top," will speak at Symphony Hall, Boston, tonight at 8.15. He will describe his experiences in french warfare, including bomb-throwing and machine gun and bayonet fighting...
Sergeant Empey was in the National Guard and Regular Army of the United States for thirteen years, until he joined the British Army in France in 1915. He served at the Front in a machine gun detachment and as a bomb-thrower until he was wounded last February...
...conclusion, Dr. Van Dyke maintained that the German submarine warfare, German espionage, bomb plots, and all such machinations had forced us irrevocably into a war which we must fight out until we have forced upon Germany the realization and expiation of her crimes...