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When Mar. 5 rolls around, will Mr. Bok sigh and say, as he puts $50,000 back into his pocket, "Ah well, it was a gallant attempt, well worth the price I paid...
...recite the familiar roster of its glories? Belleau Wood, Vaux, Saint Mihiel, Blanc Mont, Argonne-Meuse offensive. It suffered 24,000 casualties, the greatest of any U. S. division. It captured 12,000 prisoners-one-quarter of the entire number taken by the U. S. Army. Now Lejeune, the gallant fighter, the able tactician, the great disciplinarian, Commandant of a Corps which he helped to make famous, is trying to buy that Corps its home...
...hands are none too clean-and yet this criticism of hostility at the Games is just another example of our self-righteousness. The newspapers stir us with accounts of how the gallant boys were coolly received by the French spectators; but they do not tell us some of the things I saw with my own eyes: a young Frenchman knocked deliberately and for no reason from his bicycle into three inches of black dust at Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station...
...room from a tavern in Alexandria, Va., in which Washington attended his last birthday ball, in which Lafayette, that gallant soldier, was dined by old comrades at arms with great ceremony...
...Ross-he was the culprit; wild Tom Ross, gallant Tom Ross, "the last of the bad men." A man as lean as a knife, with narrow lips, wide cheekbones and a jewel in his eye, he shot those who insulted him with laudable courtesy. The cattle inspectors, for instance. They had been so ill-advised as to report some piracies-of his. He went to their hotel, shot them. He was oppressed at his trial, which lasted over a month, as one forced to endure a protracted breach of good taste. When the sentence was read, he commiserated the jury...