Word: poilu
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French army is learning baseball rapidly. They like for its speed and excitement, but they have found American terms very difficult. A poilu simply cannot wrap his tongue around such words as "catcher", "base hit", and "umpire...
...Your poilu has burst his cocoon and stands glittering before the world--an Aspirant. He is proud of himself--and more at peace than ever before in his life...
...which is itself only a means, and such a foolish, illogical means, than which, no one, as yet, sees a better--to an end which is vague and so far away that most hereabouts lose sight of it. Perhaps it is as well. For I don't believe the Poilu could think and go on as bravely and smilingly as he does...
...past year--Walter Lippmann's "Stakes of Diplomacy," John Reed's "War in Eastern Europe," Alan Seeger's "Poems," and Mr. Hunt's own "War Bread"--were written by members of the 1910 Monthly board, and that the 1909 board had its similar representation in Henry Sheahan's "Volunteer Poilu." It proceeds with a dramatized vision of the Monthly Sanctum in 1910, from which the spectator is transported in imagination to "somewhere." Here appears the Foreign Legion, and the countless legions of youth and manhood of a free world in every time, with a passionate impersonal voice reciting "for itself...
Suffice it to say that nowhere can one find a better picture of the war, viewed from all sides and from above, than in this book. It takes its place with Gallishaw's "Trenching at Gallipoli," Sheehan's "A Volunteer Poilu" and "Friends of France," as part of the library which every man, and above all, every Harvard man, should read