U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [353]
The shel had his number on it.
The blood ran into the ground.
The service record dropped out of the filing cab-inet when the quartermaster sergeant got blotto that time they had to pack up and leave the bil ets in a hurry. The identification tag was in the bottom of the
Marne.
The blood ran into the ground, the brains oozed
out of the cracked skul and were licked up by the
trenchrats, the bel y swel ed and raised a generation of bluebottle flies, and the incorruptible skeleton,
and the scraps of dried viscera and skin bundled
in khaki
they took to Chalons-sur-Marne
and laid it out neat in a pine coffin
-472-and took it home to God's Country on a battleship and buried it in a sarcophagus in the Memorial
Amphitheatre in the Arlington National Cemetery
and draped the Old Glory over it
And the bugler played taps
and Mr. Harding prayed to God and the diplo-mats and the generals and the admirals and the brass-hats and the politicians and the handsomely dressed ladies out of the society column of the Washington
Post stood up solemn
and thought how beautiful sad Old Glory God's
Country it was to have the bugler play taps and the three vol eys made their ears ring. Where his chest ought to have been they pinned
the Congressional Medal, the D.S.C., the Me-dail e Militaire, the Belgian Croix de Guerre, the Ital-ian gold medal, the Vitutea Militara sent by Queen Marie of Rumania, the Czechoslovak war cross, the
Virtuti Militari of the Poles, a wreath sent by Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York, and a little wampum presented by a deputation of Arizona redskins in warpaint and feathers. Al the Washingtonians brought flowers.
Woodrow Wilson brought a bouquet of poppies.
-473-THE BIG MONEY
CONTENTS
CHARLEY ANDERSON
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NEWSREEL XLIV Yankee Doodle that melodee
10
CHARLEY ANDERSON
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NEWSREEL XLV 'Twarn't for powder and for
storebought hair
18
THE AMERICAN PLAN
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NEWSREEL XLVI these are the men for whom
the rabid
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NEWSREEL XLVII boy seeking future offered
28
The Camera Eye (44) the unnamed arrival
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CHARLEY ANDERSON
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NEWSREEL XLVIII truly the Steel Corporation
46
TIN LIZZIE
47
NEWSREEL XLIX Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Dia-
monds
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CHARLEY ANDERSON
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NEWSREEL L Don't blame it all on Broadway
91
THE BITTER DRINK
93
NEWSREEL LI The sunshine drifted from our
alley
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MARY FRENCH
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The Camera Eye (45) the narrow yellow
room teems with talk
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-v-MARY FRENCH
127
The Camera Eye (46) walk the streets and
walk the streets
149
NEWSREEL LII assembled to a service for the
dear departed
152
ART AND ISADORA
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NEWSREEL LIII Bye bye blackbird
162
MARGO DOWLING
163
NEWSREEL LIV there was nothing significant
about the morning's trading
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ADAGIO DANCER
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NEWSREEL LV THRONGS IN STREETS
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The Camera Eye (47) sirens bloom in the fog
over the harbor
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CHARLEY ANDERSON
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NEWSREEL LVI his first move was to board a
fast train for Miami
236
The Camera Eye (48) westbound to Havana
Puerto-Mexico Galveston
238
MARGO DOWLING
243
NEWSREEL LVII the psychic removed all cloth-
ing
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MARGO DOWLING
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NEWSREEL LVIII In my dreams it always seems
277
NEWSREEL LIX the stranger first coming to De-
troit
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NEWSREEL LX Was Céline to blame?
325
MARGO DOWLING
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NEWSREEL LXI High high high up in the hills
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CHARLEY ANDERSON
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NEWSREEL LXII STARS PORTEND EVIL
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MARGO DOWLING
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NEWSREEL LXIII but a few minutes later this
false land disappeared
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NEWSREEL LXIV WEIRD FISH DRAWN FROM
SARGASSO SEA
433
The Camera Eye (49) walking from Plym-
outh to North Plymouth
435
NEWSREEL LXV STORM TIES UP SUBWAY;
FLOODS AND LIGHTNING DARKEN CITY
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MARY FRENCH
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NEWSREEL LXVI HOLMES DENIES STAY
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The Camera Eye (50) they have clubbed us
off the streets
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NEWSREEL LXVII when things are upset, there's
always chaos
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RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
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-vii-The Camera Eye (51) at the head of the val- ley in the dark of the hills 522
POWER SUPERPOWER
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MARY
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FRENCH 3
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VAG
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-viii-CHARLEY ANDERSON