Word: cognac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHAT PRICE GLORY ??Blood drops, cognac and the rattle of ribald laughter that, combined, make war at once the business and the pastime of the U. S. Marines...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?-Mainly a memory of mud, cognac and a French girl, which were the be-all to so many of the U. S. marines. The great U. S. War play...
WHAT PRICE GLORY ?-The bitterness of the French front brought back again by a tale of the marines and how they managed the mud and cognac...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?-The great U. S. War play. Marine and mud and cognac...
...Polish imposter, who had duped ten French Bishops by pretending to be a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, was exposed when he entered a railway bar at Saint Brieuc and ordered cognac. The bystanders gazed longingly, so the cleric cried: "Set 'em up for the crowd!" His popularity grew; and at the third round there were three cheers for His Grace. After the fourth round, the "priest" indulged in Rabelaisian tales which shocked even the Breton topers. An investigation followed; and the convivial host was discovered to have been formerly a lackey of the Polish diplomatic mission...