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Sommerfield's own section, a machine-gun unit, consisted of himself and John Cornford (later killed in action); Marcel, a young tough from the Bastille quarter of Paris; Freddie, another Englishman, an ex-Guardsman; Richter, a dapper German of mysterious antecedents; miscellaneous Poles, Italians. Equipment and uniforms were equally scanty; the men wore mostly overalls and windbreakers, had one antiquated Hotchkiss gun for the whole company to train on. (Later, on the eve of their first engagement, they wangled Lewis guns, had a day to learn the new mechanism before going into action.) Drill commands were in French, which...
Notorious Philatelist Hind remembers anti-philatelic Rev. E. Bruce Cornford of Portsmouth, England, who was quoted in Stamp Collecting (London) as the author of this playlet...
PROPAGANDA is defined by Professor Cornford in his "Microcosmographica Academica" as the art of completely deceiving one's friends without ever wholly deceiving one's enemies. And books which at this date canvas again and again the responsibility for the War, particularly the question of inter-allieddebts, may in most cases be justly suspect of propagandist aims, even though it be the misfortune, and not the intention of the author, if his propaganda deceives his friends rather than his enemies. Frederick Bausman purports to be the friend of the American people, as a loyal American himself...
...choose Quentin Durward! But this has been done with so winning a boldness by the author of "Master Beggars" that his book will be virile nourishment to the jaded appetite of the habitual reader of homespun tales. The illustrator is W. Cubitt Cook. The author is L. Cope Cornford. The publisher, J. B. Lippincott Company-an apt partnership...
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