Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today is the birthday of the man who won France to the aid of the American Colonies in their struggle for independence--Benjamin Franklin. The debt we owe France can never be paid. It is not alone a National debt. It is also a personal debt of Americans to Frenchmen. This is best shown by a letter of Franklin addressed to President Washington, June...
...lacks finish, but makes up for the lack by sincerity and substance: Mr. Eastman's "After the Dance" is a short fanciful sketch. "Death and the devil," it may be 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...
...correct, but it may be diplomatically wrong. Our prohibitions, where they are not to our advantage, should not appear to lessen an appreciation of France's gifts. The customary practice among our allies is to wear such medals, and we are expected to follow a similar policy. Let not Frenchmen think that we are indifferent to their highly prized rewards. Although we do not doubt the legality of the discussed restriction, yet we believe it is at present archaic and tactless...
...Friday evening, September 7, the Battalion gave a large dinner to the French Officers at the City Club, on which occasion the large banquet hall, appropriately decorated, held over 500 diners. In addition to the Frenchmen President Lowell, Major Flynn, Captain Hamlin, Professor R. B. Merriman, Mr. Frederic Schenck and Mr. Robert D. Faller were guests of honor. Speeches and singing contributed to make a very enjoyable evening...
Today the Third Battalion is to spend the day at Fresh Pond in placing and digging entrenchments under the guidance of the French officers. Several hundred yards of the system of trenches which the Frenchmen have laid out are already completed, and the balance will be done in the next few days...