Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decadence and obliteration. Morning and evening they sang Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, but the words were equivalent to ' Save your ammunition.' The Eleventh Division (known as the Crack Eleventh) often sang Bringing in the Sheaves, the words of which had the same meaning as the American doughboy's slang phrase, ' Get your...
...Overseas Review" is the principal attraction of a well-balanced bill at Keith's this week. Assisted by Will Morrisey and a large company she presents a performance different from and much better than the usual army act. It has real overseas atmosphere, and contains some new and witty doughboy "lines." The "top sergeant," "M. P.',, and other well-known personages are cleverly characterized...
...soldiery. They have given a really pleasing picture of the dogged Britisher, and the kilted Scotsman, and the "Aussie" with his devil-may-care swagger. And they have revealed with a wealth of anecdote the warm relationships which sprang up between these veterans of three years and the American doughboy full of nervous energy, and with all the serious enthusiasm of a schoolboy...