Word: poilu
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...Bride, airedale, owned by the Davishill Kennels-a beautiful bitch, champion of an airedale class in which there were 2,097 entries. Her body was a tapering cone, her forelegs struts, her hindlegs coiled springs. Sunny Meade Petit Poilu, Brussels griffon, owned by Mrs. William D. Goff, strutted among the others, well knowing that he would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded...
President Doumergue drove from the Palais d'Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe at the top of the Champs Elysées. Here, in the presence of the Ministers, he deposited a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Poilu, instead of attending the usual military revue...
Totally unexpected, M. Maginot, Minister of War and himself a poilu during the War, swooped down upon the camps to inspect the food of the poilus, who, according to Paris smalltalk, are not properly fed. M. Maginot found the quantity of food sufficient but the quality occasionally bad. He also found that some poilus were getting a beer ration when they preferred wine. The Minister of War ordered the change and added that he would from time to time "make unannounced inspections" of soldiers' barracks...
...monument to the U. S. Volunteers killed in the French Army during the War is the work of Jean Boucher. It represents a young soldier of the French Legion, rifle in hand, waving his comrades to charge. On one side of the pedestal is a poilu shaking hands with a doughboy, who is represented as Alan Seeger, the young American poet killed in the French ranks. On the other side of the pedestal is one of Seeger's poems...
Judging by communications to the sculptor Jean Boucher's memorial statue in Paris, showing a gloved American soldier shaking hands with a Poilu, deeply affected many who saw it. But what moved them was not the beauty of the statue, but the soldiers' gloves. "Both soldiers, being gentlemen, would have removed their gloves," said the objectors. M. Boucher reluctantly carved the gloves off the statue...