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Word: poltroon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world does not love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon or a cad. Yet the world is apt to be misled by clothes, by a distant or elevated manner, by reputation or another inessential sham. No more does the Army love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon, or a cad. And in the Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR, THE LEVELLER | 5/22/1917 | See Source »

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