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...Read merrily the "Doughboy Dictionary" provided by a London paper, supposedly "interpreting" new U.S. slang to the British. Some definitions were correct. Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer...
...World War I, U.S. railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter...
...feat: he knocked out a series of German machine-gun nests alone, incidentally killing two Germans with a trench pick. He too received a Congressional Medal of Honor, and decorations from six nations. From General Pershing he drew a simple tribute: "Here is America's greatest doughboy." During the war he held a "Jawbone" (temporary) commission as first lieutenant and was temporary captain for a brief period in 1919, but was eventually returned to his permanent rank of sergeant. Uncomplaining, he re-enlisted as a buck private, cashed out in 1923 as master sergeant after 22 years of service...
Training Center students do the same things a doughboy does, often under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about...
From the opening bell it was apparent that Bummy's reformation had gone too far. He lumbered around on his pianolike legs, used his fists like a slightly angry Lord Chesterfield. Cool and calculating Zivic, instead of knocking him out, jabbed at the doughboy's face until it looked like a gooey cherry pie. By the tenth round Davis was a helpless mess, bleeding from eyes, nose and mouth. Referee Arthur Donovan mercifully stepped in, awarded a technical knockout to Champion Zivic...