U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [101]
-237-He went in back where there was a cabaret al red plush with mirrors and the music was playing The Star Spangled Banner and everybody cried Vive L'Amerique and pushed drinks in his face as he came in and then he was dancing with a fat girl and the music was playing some damn foxtrot or other. He pul ed away from the fat girl because he'd seen Jeanette. She had an American flag draped over her dress. She was dancing with a big six-foot black Senegalese. Joe saw red. He pul ed her away from the nigger who was a frog officer al ful of gold braid and she said, "Wazamatta cherie," and Joe hauled off and hit the damn nigger as hard as he could right on the button but the nigger didn't budge. The nigger's face had a black puzzled smiling look like he was just going to ask a question. A waiter and a coupla frog soldiers came up and tried to pul Joe away. Everybody was yel ing and jabbering. Jeanette was trying to get between Joe and the waiter and got a sock in the jaw that knocked her flat. Joe laid out a couple of frogs and was backing off towards the door, when he saw in the mirror that a big guy in a blouse was bringing down a bottle on his head held with both hands. He tried to swing around but he didn't have time. The bottle crashed his skul and he was out. NEWSREEL XXIX
the arrival of the news caused the swamping of the city's telephone lines Y fallait pas
Y fallait pas
Y fallait pas-a-a-a-a-yallez
BIG GUNS USED IN HAMBURG
-238-at the Custom House the crowd sang The Star Spangled Banner under the direction of Byron R. Newton the Col ector of the Port
MORGAN ON WINDOWLEDGE
KICKS HEELS AS HE SHOWERS
CROWD WITH TICKERTAPE
down at the battery the siren of the fireboat New York let out a shriek when the news reached there and in less time than it takes to say boo pandemonium broke loose al along the waterfront
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light
WOMEN MOB CROWN PRINCE FOR
KISSING MODISTE
Allons enfants de la patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé
It's the wrong way to tickle Mary
It's the wrong place to go
"We've been at war with the devil and it was worth al the suffering it entailed," said Wil iam Howard Taft at a vic-tory celebration here last night Kakakatee, beautiful Katee She's the only gugugirl that I adore
And when the moon shines
Unipress, N. Y.
Paris urgent Brest Admiral Wilson who announced
16:00 (4P.M.) Brest newspaper armistice been signed later notified unconfirmable meanwhile Brest riotously celebrating TWO TROLLIES HELD UP BY GUNMEN IN
QUEENS
Over the cowshed
I'll be waiting at the kakakitchen door
-239-SPECIAL GRAND JURY ASKED TO INDICT
BOLSHEVISTS
the soldiers and sailors gave the only touch of color to the celebration. They went in wholeheartedly for having a good time, getting plenty to drink despite the fact that they were in uniform. Some of these returned fighters nearly caused a riot when they took an armful of stones and attempted to break an electric sign at Broadway and Forty-second Street reading:
WELCOME HOME TO OUR HEROES
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming When the rocket's red glare the bombs bursting in air Was proof to our eyes that the flag was still there THE
CAMERA EYE (36)
when we emptied the rosies to leeward over the side every night after the last inspection we'd stop for a moment's gulp of the November gale the lash of spray in back of your ears for a look at the spume splintered off the leaping waves shipwreckers drowners of men (in their great purple floating mines rose and fel gently sub-marines travel ed under them on