1917 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 32: Behold us at present off on a bat.at on a bat under bat, n.3
1917 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 125: Alice and I won’t have to leave the Division [...] Aren’t we the lucky guys?at guy, n.2
1918 M. Baldwin letter in Canteening Overseas (1920) 166: The Germans say ‘God be with us.’ But if He is, He surely must be A.W.O.L.at A.W.O.L., adj.
1918 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 165: I couldn’t go back till ‘it’s all over but the shouting’.at all over bar the shouting, phr.
1918 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 149: After a delicious lunch of bully beef and gold fish (salmon) we prepared to return.at goldfish, n.2
1918 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 94: The Sammies are right in the ‘thick of it’ now.at sammy, n.
1919 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 188: We seem to thrive nevertheless – on beef (horse, the boys call it).at horse, n.
1919 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 192: Yesterday at 8 A.M. we ‘lizzied’ out to the carnival grounds.at lizzie, v.
1919 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 190: They do acrocbatics [sic] [...] by the Rhine, causing the square-headed population to stare with astonishment.at squareheaded, adj.2
1919 letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 187: I answered that I was making a stab at it.at stab, n.1