ood
so expensive in France?"

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SEA SLANG PUZZLES POILU.
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Trips on an Idiom and His Pride
Takes a Fall.
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Among the idiomatic terms adopted by United States Marines everywhere,
the expression "shove off" is used more frequently than any other. In
the sea-soldier lingo, if a Marine goes home on furlough, leaves his
camp or garrison or goes anywhere, he "shoves off."

A story comes from France of a Marine who had been acting as orderly for
a lieutenant. The officer sent him on an errand, and when he returned
the lieutenant was nowhere about. A poilu, who happened to be loitering
in the vicinity, was questioned by the Marine:

"Have you seen the lieutenant?"

"Oui, monsieur, oui," replied the poilu, proud of his newly acquired
Marine Corps English, "he have--what you call--pushed over."

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HOW ABOUT THEM?
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Things that make all the difference in the world:--

A letter from ---- (fill in name to suit yourself.)

A real soap-and-hot-water bath.

A real shave.

Dry feet.

American tobacco.

"Good work!" from the skipper.

A home-town paper less than a month old.

"Seconds" on coffee--when it's made right.

Pay-day.

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YANKEE AVIATORS
PLAY IN LUCK
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Dead Engine Sneezes and
Picks Up after a 2,000
Meter Drop.
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SKY FULL OF CREAM PUFFS.
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Observer Who Fails to Surround
Something Hot Faints
From the Cold.
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Those were American boys who dodged Boche air patrols, laughed at
anti-aircraft guns and spattered bombs upon Rombach and Ludwigshafen far
behind the Boche lines.

One of them used to be a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Joseph Wilson,
of Wheeling, W. Va., another is Bud Lehr, of Albion, Neb., who played
center on a basketball team that won the State championship. The others
are Charles Kinsolving and Charles Kerwood, of Philadelphia, and George
Kyle, of