Vulgar words in The Stars and Stripes - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (Page 1)
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All along of a Boche wot peppered our water and ration train.-- You see, w'd been pals from childhood; him and me chummed through school, And when we growed up and got married we put our spare kale in a pool, And both made a comfortable living; 'twas just for our mates and the kids,-- Now the Hun--damn his soul--has taken his toll, and me pal had to cash in his bids.
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He held up the kiddie's letter--we were laughin' a bit at the scrawl, All warm inside with a feeling--well, you know what I mean, damn it all!
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---- Honest, but Jim was the sourest man in all o' Comp'ny G; You could sing and tell stories the whole night long, but never a cuss gave he.
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If he is repeating them second hand, he is nothing but an ass, a dupe of some real propagandist, and he should be reported and punished just the same.
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* * * * Mrs. Margaret Deland says she wishes every soldier in the army might see "Damaged Goods."
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Shucks, Mrs. Deland; we all saw damaged goods when we got our belated Christmas packages.
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Then along come some Canucks--damn decent chaps, too, and more like Americans than anything else they've got over here--and they want to trade off with us for some stuff.
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He must have got a helluva toss when he went.
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"Well, I'll be darned--you haven't changed a bit!" was all the French they could remember.
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From the rear of a line of scrapping, frantic mail orderlies, each one trying to corner all the packages marked "Tobacco" and "Chocolate" for his particular outfit, the reporter, by standing on a box marked "Fragile--This Side Up," was able to see the scene depicted above, and to hear, above the din, the Postal Clerk's momentous decisions.
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The application of this test, it is held, will keep the mule-skinners too fully occupied to be able to cuss or to care a cuss about cussing.
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But you're too good a soldier, old dip, to cuss or cry; So--(there he heaved it into space)--goodby, old hat; goodby!"