Word: poilu
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Today the French nation is honoring her noble dead by interring the veterans of an unknown Poilu in the Are de Triomphe. England likewise bows in reverent memory of her heroes by placing the body of an unknown "Tommy" in her most famous shrine, Westminster Abbey...
...Tellegen, in the role of the tall, good-looking Poilu, plays his part to perfection. His English, interspersed with French, endows the character with a power which none but he could give. The supporting cast is admirable. From Mr. Ivan Simpson, as Sir Arthur Arkwright, the spineless Englishman, to Miss Bogislav, as Madame Helene, the French modiste, there is little that can be said other than praise. No review would be complete unless some mention was made of Miss Belwin. She, as Mildred, fulfills all the requirements of the pretty heroine in love--madly in love--with her soldier hero...
...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...