Word: poilu
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...salon. When his good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited dog, who wags his tail at the audience, his natural grace left uncropped by the playwright...
...hose", the war, and faith in God, in man, and the "idea". The war is a far cry, but what else could effect half so nicely a marriage in the sight of heaven alone, and a reunion four years later with a blinded, but indomitable husband in Poilu blue...
From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...
...local railway station moved the troops. The Ruhr occupation,* begun on the orders of Premier Poincaré on Jan. 11, 1923, came to an end after 2 years, 6 months and 20 days. Germans were unimpressed. There were no tears, no jubilations-not until the last French poilu had gone, when, at 12 o'clock midnight, bells pealed, flags were waved, people sang and rejoiced...
Indeed, the spectacle of Germanophobe France paying all-highest honor to a dead German would be rib-crackingly funny if it were not so heartrendingly serious. The French chose their unknown poilu at random and because of that very fact it has on occasion been hinted that he was a U. S. doughboy, a Senegalese rifleman. It has also been stated before that he was a German, but never proved. Suffice it to say that the decomposed body under the stone slabs of the driveway of the Arc de Triomphe is, to the minds of Frenchmen, a Frenchman...