U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [286]
They will answer in accents so sweet
PRESIDENT HAS SLIGHT COLD AT SEA
Special Chef and Staff of Waiters and Kitchen Helpers Drafted from the Biltmore Every Comfort Provided
Orchestra to Play During Meals and Navy Yard Band
to Play for Deck Music
You will eat bye and bye
In that glorious land above the sky
the city presents a picture of the wildest destruction espe-cial y around the General Post Office which had been total y destroyed by fire, nothing but ruins remaining Work and pray
Live on hay
Three Truckloads of Records Gathered Here
eleven men were kil ed and twentythree injured, some of them seriously as the result of an explosion of fulminate of mercury in the priming unit of one of the cap works of the E. I. duPont de Nemours Powder Company; in the evening Mrs. Wilson released carrier pigeons . . . and through it all how fine the spirit of the nation was, what unity of purpose what untiring zeal what elevation of purpose ran through all its splendid display of strength, its untiring accomplishment. I have said that those of us who stayed at home to do the work of organization and supply would always wish we had been with the men we sustained by our labor, but we can never be ashamed . . . in the dining room music was furnished by a quartet of sailors
-251- You'll get pie
In the sky
When you die
GORGAS WOULD PUT SOLDIERS IN HUTS
800 FIGHTING MEN CHEER BOLSHEVIKI
Al the arrangements were wel ordered but the crowd was kept at a distance. The people gathered on the hil s near the pier raised a great shout when the president's launch steamed up. A detour was made from the Champs Elysees to cross the Seine over the Alexander I I bridge which recal ed another historic pageant when Paris outdid herself to honor an absolute ruler in the person of the czar.
ADDRESSED 1400 MAYORS FROM PALACE BALCONY
BRITISH NAVY TO BE SUPREME
DECLARES
CHURCHILL
THE CAMERA EYE (37)
alphabetically according to rank tapped out with two cold index fingers on the company Corona Allots Class A & B Ins prem C & D
Atten --SHUN snap to the hooks and eyes at my
throat constricting the adamsapple bringing together the US and the Caduceus At Ease
outside they're, dril ing in the purple drizzle of a winter afternoon in Ferrièes en Gatinais, Abbaye founded by Clovis over the skeletons of three disciples of nôtre
-252-seigneur Jésus-Christ 3rd Lib Loan Sec of Treas Altian Politian and Hermatian 4th Lib Loan Sec of Treas must be on CL E or other form Q.M.C. 38 now it's raining hard and the gutters gurgle there's tinkling from al the little glassgreen streams Alcuin was prior once and mil -wheels grind behind the mossed stone wal s and Clodhilde and Clodomir were buried here
promotions only marked under gains drowsily clacked out on the rusteaten Corona in the cantonment of O'Riel-ly's Travel ing Circus alone except for the undertaker sol-diering in his bunk and the dry hack of the guy that has TB that the MO was never sober enough to examine
Iodine will make you happy
Iodine will make you well
fourthirty the pass comes alive among the CC pil s in my pocket
the acting QM Sarge and the Topkicker go out
through the gate of USAAS base camp in their slickers in the lamplit rain and make their way without a cent in their OD to the Cheval Blanc where by chevrons and parleyvoo-ing they bum drinks and omelettes avec pornmes frites and kid applecheeked Madeleine may wee
in the dark hal way to the back room the boys are
lined up waiting to get in to the girl in black from out of town to drop ten francs and hurry to the propho station sol viol sk not L D viol Go 41/14 rd sent S C M
-253-outside it's raining on the cobbled town inside we drink vin rouge parlezvous froglegs may wee couchez avec and the old territorial at the next table drinks il egal pernod and remarks Toute est bien fait dans la nature à
la votre aux Americains
Après la guerre finee
Back to the States for me
Dans la mort il n'y a rien de terrible Quant on va mourir on pense à tout mais vite the first day in the year dismissed after rol cal I went walking with a fel