Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history, English and Christianity. After his Hong-Kong Edward VII Scholarship blew up because he was not a British subject, Jimmy was reduced to going to Yale ('18) and Princeton (M.A. '20). After graduating from Yale he went to France for the Y.M.C.A., worked in a Boulogne canteen for 5,000 coolies of a military labor battalion. These workers kept Jimmy busy writing their letters home, reading newspapers to them...
About the only objections to the original sequences is the treatment of the "Stage Door Canteen" number, in which a broken-hearted soldier tries to act lovingly toward his girl-to-be-he-hopes-except-for-the-hostess. Ordinarily we would be the last to complain about a little romance, but when we realize that the girl in question is really another soldier and maybe even the first guy is top sarge, "it looks sort of pointless--or worse...
...Y.W.C.A. "teenage canteen" (for young girls and for servicemen under...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...
...quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those men she was transferred to Dieppe to await the 1941 exchange ship, the one that never came because at the last minute the Germans backed out of the deal. The Germans...