Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
Everytime I read a headline, "Doughboys Invade Leyte," or "Aachen Entered By Doughboys" I see red. Even if we Americans have been the richest nation of the world are we not delusioning ourselves if we accept the term "doughboy" as a synonym for "American...
...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...Separation. In 1919 the doughboy got the money due him and a railroad ticket home. What happened after that was his lookout. What happens after this war will also be his lookout but the Army is going to give him a better start. Last time, the jobless were back, demanding help. This time the Government hopes that it will not have to call out the cops to disperse "betrayed" veterans...