Word: doughboy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President had gone to Missouri for his man. All sections of the country approved. "The doughboy's general'' seemed as eminently fitted for the job as General Marshall was for his. Cheered the New York Times: "A stroke of inspiration...
...Nazi cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, when U.S. troops ejected her from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's hill villa at Kitzbuhel, Austria: "Some of my best friends were Jews." With tears in her great brown eyes she complained of the disrespect of an unnamed Boston Irish doughboy. "Baby," he had said, "I've been going to the movies a long time and I never heard...
...enough to make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
...dusk outside, German Haus-frauen listened in bewilderment to the discordant doughboy opera. The irreverent G.I.s, having captured the opera house and set up a command post there, had found the property room intact. Tired as they were, the temptation to dress up and put on a show was too much for them. The performance lasted two hours...
...General. The Ninth's commander is called "Texas Bill" Simpson. He is also called a doughboy's general because he loves the infantry. With Georgie Patten, who is one of his West Point classmates, he loves to argue the relative merits of tanks and foot soldiers...