U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [69]
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his voice was three thousand miles away al the
time he kept wanting to get up outa bed his cheeks were bright pink and the choky breathing No kid you better lay there quiet we dont want you catching more cold
-174-that's why they sent me down to stay with you to keep you from getting up outa bed, the barrelvaulted room al smel s fever and white-wash carbolic sick wops outside the airraid siren's got a nightmare
( Mestre's a railhead and its moonlight over the
Brenta and the basehospital and the ammunition dump carbolic blue moonlight) al the time he kept trying to get up outa bed Kiddo you better lay there quiet his voice was in Minnesota but dontjaunerstandafel ersgottogetup I got a date animportantengagementtoseeabout those lots ought never-tohavestayedinbedsolate I'l lose my deposit For chrissake dont you think I'm broke enough as it is?
Kiddo you gotto lay there quiet we're in the hos-pital in Mestre you got a little fever makes things seem funny
Cant you letafel erbe? You're in cahoots withem
thaswhassematteris I know theyreouttorookme they
think Imagoddamsucker tomadethatdeposit I'l showem Il knockyergoddamblockoff my shadow on the vault bulkyclumsily staggering and swaying from the one candle spluttering red in the raw winterhospital carbolic night above the shadow on the cot gotto keep his shoulders down to the cot Curley's husky inspite of
(you can hear their motors now the antiaircraft bat--175-teries are letting loose must be great up there in the moon-light out of the smel of carbolic and latrines and sick wops) sit back and light a macedonia by the candle he
seems to be asleep his breathing's so tough pneumonia breathing can hear myself breathe and the water tick in the faucet doctors and orderlies al down in the bomb-proof cant even hear a sick wop groan Jesus is the guy dying?
they've cut off their motors the little drums in my ears sure that's why they cal em drums (up there in the blue moonlight the Austrian observer's reaching for the string that dumps the applecart) the candleflame stands up stil
not that time but wham in the side of the head woke Curley and the glass tinkling in the upstairs windows the candle staggered but didnt go out the vault sways with my shadow and Curley's shadow dammit he's strong
head's ful of the fever reek Kiddo you gotto stay in bed (they dumped the applecart al right) shel fragments hailing around outside Kiddo you gotto get back to bed But I gotadate oh christohsweetiesus cant you tel me how to get back to the outfit haveaheart dad I didntmean-noharm itsnonlyaboutthose lots the voice dwindles into a whine I'm pul ing the
covers up to his chin again light the candle again smoke a
-176-macedonia again look at my watch again must be near day ten o'clock they dont relieve me til eight
way off a voice goes up and up and swoops like the
airraid siren ayayoooTO
NEWSREEL XXV
General Pershing's forces today occupied Bel e Joyeuse Farm and the southern edges of the Bois des Loges. The Americans encountered but little machinegun opposition. The advance was in the nature of a linestraightening operation. Otherwise the activity along the front today consisted prin-cipal y of artil ery firing and bombing. Patrols are operating around Bel uno having preceded the flood of al ies pouring through the Quero pass in the Grappa region
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Bonjour ma cherie
Comment allez vous?
Bonjour ma cherie
how do you do?
after a long conference with a secretary of war and the secretary of state President Wilson returned to the White House this afternoon apparently highly pleased that events are steadily pursuing the course which he had felt they would take Avez vous fiancé cela ne fait rien
Voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Wee, wee, combien?
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Lord Robert, who is foreign minister Balfour's right hand man added, "When victory comes the responsibility for America and Great Britain wil rest not on statesmen but on the people." The display of the red flag in our thoroughfares