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letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 4: Hit the deck, leatherneck – Rise and Shine.at rise and shine!, excl.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 4: Hit the deck, leatherneck – Rise and Shine. letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 5: I’m not master enough to describe a ‘chow-hound’ in action.at chow hound (n.) under chow, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 4: Hit the deck, leatherneck – Rise and Shine.at hit the deck (v.) under deck, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 33: Here we are huddled about the stove with wet feet having a song and a gab-fest.at gabfest (n.) under gab, v.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 4: Why, I have grown so tough that the gobs scurry to their holes when they hear my hobnails a-poundin’ the deck.at gob, n.2
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 4: Hit the deck, leatherneck – Rise and Shine.at leatherneck, n.
letter Dear Folks at Home (1919) 10: ‘Mac’ [...] is as proud as any leatherneck I’ve ever met over his being in the United States Marine Corps.at Mac, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 35: A big Zep flew high overhead.at Zep, n.
in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 76: When this is all over, I will be home with bells on.at with bells on under bell, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 4: Gun-totin’, rip-roarin’, son-of-gun of a hard-boiled Marine that I am.at hard-boiled, adj.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 7: Generally, in the evening, just before taps, we hold ‘bull’ sessions.at bull session, n.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 258: I have no idea of being ‘bumped off’ with money on my person.at bump (off), v.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 54: We have a bunch of fun up here.at bunch, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 78: We live on canned Willie and raw bacon and hardtack.at canned willie (n.) under canned, adj.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 203: ‘They’re Americans!’ and ‘Teufelhunden!’ (devil dogs). That’s what they call the Marines down at Verdun.at devil dogs (n.) under devil, n.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 85: A few of the ‘Dutch’ got away by beating it across the fields.at Dutch, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 222: I think the ‘jyrenes’ must have stopped one hundred tons of machine-gun bullets and shrapnel.at gyrene, n.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 215: Everyone of their American boys are putting the K.O. on the Big, Brave, and Best German soldiers.at k.o., n.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 154: A runner coming through a deserted French town found several live chickens. These he knocked over ‘pronto’ and brought into the front line where we cooked them.at knock over, v.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 148: Our ‘chow’ [...] consisted of bread and ‘monkey’ meat, as we call some canned meat that comes from Argentine.at monkey meat (n.) under monkey, n.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 217: We will scatter those ‘sauerkrauter eaters’ [sic] before the summer is over.at sauerkraut, n.
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 236: I smoke cigarettes (when I have them) like a trooper.at like a trooper (adv.) under trooper, n.1
letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 240: The only souvenir I care to bring back to U.S.A. is yours truly.at yours truly, n.
in Dear Folks at Home 48: There have been many calls for the ‘leathernecks’ to act as the shock troops on the ‘jump-off’ of an offensive.at jump-off, n.
letter 16 Mar. in Dear Folks (2000) 142: I goldbricked, however, doing very little scrubbing.at goldbrick, v.
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