Word: doughboys
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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...
...Normandy, a group of U.S. soldiers, dog-tired after a day of marching, fighting, marching again, flopped down in a roadside ditch for a cat nap, landed on six Nazi soldiers already asleep. Grumbled one doughboy, after the Nazis were captured: "Damn it, a G.I.'s work is never done...
King George VI lunched at Fifth Army advance headquarters as a guest of Lieut. General Mark Clark, along with Manhattan's Archbishop Spellman (see RELIGION) and the Allied commander in Italy, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander. Some 300 yards from the table, a U.S. doughboy stepped on a brace of German mines, which promptly exploded, killing the soldier. At His Majesty's table no one was hurt...