Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fairly said, have "done for the rest." J. D. writes with sardonic force on suicide; Mr. Williams depicts vituperative Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author's vehemence does not carry the reader with it. The final paragraph is dangerously reminiscent of the Bab Ballads...
Fine Arts 1a. French...
...parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have captured a German patrol of twenty, while on page five, under a flaring advertisement of some chewing gum company, we find the official British and French communications of attacks in which thousands have been engaged. In a way it is ludicrous, but such a sad commentary on our own crudity, that it loses most of its humor...
...left France one month ago, and at that time the British and French were full of confidence, and our troops were keen and eager to join in the action. This is going to be a long, hard war. We can win, and we will win; but it means everybody behind the Government with everything they have: material things and spiritual force...
...Azan, "The War of Positions." Part III, Ch. 2 and 3. Capt. Andre Laffargue, "Attack in Trench Warfare" (Translated from the French, 1917). Pond and McDonough, "Technique of Modern Tactics," Ch. XI. Capt. Solano, "Drill and Field Training...