Vulgar words in The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

cocky x 1
make love x 1
scrap x 1
snag x 1
            

Page 1

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,071   ~   ~   ~

Old men, who remembered 1870, gave their arms to old ladies to whom they had made love when the Prussians were at the gates of Paris then.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,821   ~   ~   ~

They were more numerous, but we were better placed, so we went on scrapping and crawling around to get a shot at them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,695   ~   ~   ~

One burly sailor, whom we told to wait until the next boat came along, laughingly remarked [Transcriber: original 'remared'] while he was in the water, 'All right, Cocky, I will hold on by my eyebrows,' and he drifted to another galley.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,899   ~   ~   ~

Here, and here only, was a snag concerning food.

Page 1