Word: doughboy
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...French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which to learn English before his passport expires. He will then be handed a U. S. Army enlistment examination. If he passes, this young aristocrat who has fought from Smyrna to the Ukraine will become a doughboy. Failure means deportation to Russia...
...north of his peninsula, he looks out on the gilded bronze statue of St. Michael standing 165 ft. above the waves on the Gothic spire of the fortress-abbey Mont St. Michel; to the south in the harbor of St. Nazaire, he now sees an American doughboy, sword in hand, eagerly poised atop the back of an eagle with graceful, outspread wings...
...Parade has led to imitative competition. Thus far none have been able to compete, least of all this one. Striking similarity to The Big Parade is noticeable. Three young men march off to war. The girl seeks her fiancé among thousands of marching troops. A doughboy is killed by German machine guns. In the final scene the girl is watching the Unknown Soldier ceremony when her boy romps up to explain that he was only wounded after...
...manager of the Yale Dramatic Association describes the play as follows: "'Out O'Luck' is a comedy of doughboy life in France during the World War written from notes made by the author during the St. Mihiel drive in August and September...
...London, it was announced that the new Oxford English Dictionary, now being compiled, would include and define English slang expressions coined during the War, such as: "dud," "doughboy," "strafe." The expression "Getting the wind up," meaning "to become nervous," was said to be puzzling the lexicographers, who finally decided to leave its origin indefinite. Common belief is that this phrase originated with the British air forces. Aviators, to whom wind meant danger, used "getting the wind up" as an equivalent for "borrowing trouble...