Word: poilu
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...last months of the Great War the ''doughboy," the "poilu" and the "Tommy'' fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear...
...modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks: "loops." "break-ways," "skinning the cat," "three-leaf clovers" and "Bow Bells." Most dangerous Yo-Yo maneuver is "around the world," in which the spinning top gyrates about its thrower's head in a circle which alternately widens and contracts...
...schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge on its hill top at Meaux on the Marne, 30 miles from Paris. Present were solemn, long-mustached President Albert Lebrun of France, plump, genial Premier Edouard Herriot and a French audience so militant that two mentions of Aristide...
...afterwards a Communist. In 1914, being already Mayor of the proletarian Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his old constituents as a Socialist. He did not enlist in the Army. When drafted he served briefly at the front as a common poilu. His Socialist views caused him to orate directly after the War against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat as Deputy, quarreled with some of his Socialist colleagues, remained friendly with others and is said to have been briefly enrolled at one time as both a Socialist...
...then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When War broke out Pierre Laval was drafted, entered the army as a common poilu, saw actual service at the front...