Vulgar words in The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me (Page 1)
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He told us what happened impersonally as one who is listening to another man's story in his own mouth A fat man can't wear the modern American army uniform without looking like a sack of meal He wore a scarlet coat of unimaginable vividness, a cutaway coat of glaring scarlet broadcloth We thought he might be testing us out as potential spies And we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball "Well now, sir, you wouldn't be wearing those brown shoes to Lord Bryce's tea, would you, Mr. White?"
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The Col-o-nel and the lady with their idea on the woman question, the Armenians with their bizarre music, the Yankee with his freaky humour, and the sedentary gold dust twins from Kansas, and a great boat-load of others like them in their striking differences of ideals and notions, all hurrying across the world to help in the great fight for democracy which, in its essence, is only the right to live in the world, each man, each cult, each race, each blood and each nation after its own kind.
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You know I rather like the social spunk of our Great Middle West!"
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How can they make love in such a place?"
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It makes you into somebody else... you've died so many times you're like a walking corpse...isn't that just how you feel?' he appealed to his companion, who said impassively, "'No, damn you, that isn't a bit how I feel.
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We go into a trench after them damn brutes has been playing machine guns on us, knowing as soon as we get in they'll surrender, but trying to kill as many of us as they can before they give up.
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Then they raise up their hands and begin yelling, 'Kamerade, Kamerade,' and someone says, 'Come on, fellers, let's take this poor beggar,' and we're about to do it when along comes a chap and sees this devil, and up goes a gun by the barrel, and whack it comes down on the Boche's head, and the feller says, 'No, damn him, he killed my pal,' and we polishes him off!
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It's got so it's mighty damn risky for any Prussian to surrender to any Canadian!"
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Whenever we went to an English dinner, in our tails, some English ladyship through a lorgnette or a spyglass of some kind gave us the once-over with the rough blade of her social disapproval and we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball.
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[Illustration: And we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball] "That's your allowance, sir," said the waitress, and money would buy no more.
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And so it goes for a whole evening, while Bert, making love to an interminable string of girls at each place where he is billeted at the front, gives away scores of precious lockets with his mother's hair in them, and Alf tries forever, unavailingly, to make his cigarette lighter work, and Old Bill dreams of his wife at home who keeps a "pub"!