Word: ribaldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks for item "Playing Soldiers" in TIME of Oct. 20, in which you mention the fact that most Legionaries never saw front line action and that their convention resembled a gala college reunion, somewhat ribald...
...battle-maimed U. S. heroes. But the great majority of American Legionaries never saw front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor poisoning; one Legionary and his wife died of this cause. Patients were treated for wounds contracted from being hit by, sitting on, falling on, tripping...
...more does ribald rendition of Sweet Adeline, born of beer, arrest our slumbers...