Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occurred. American troops half an hour before had occupied Thiaucourt; the cellars not yet mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded to hack the embroidered sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives...
...anger was only simulated; no one enjoyed the joke better than General Neville. That night he twitted doughboy General Ely on the front-line valor of his troops...
...good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...front cover...
Late in 1927 the two men, eager and friendly, flew across the South Atlantic to Port Natal, Brazil. Thence they hopped about South America. There were official receptions, accolades, photographs. It was noticeable how they jostled each other to get into the front of the pictures...