This ain't no country club affair Of smiles and clever skill; There ain't no silver cups around When doughboys train to kill.
A half hour later the four men returned to their plane but four armed doughboys went there with them.
The place was fairly empty, a native couple in one corner and two doughboys in another.
However, the doughboysmight have spotted him for a villain from the beginning, on account of his wretched saluting.
The streets were filled with the clatter of the big boots of doughboys throughout the morning and well into the afternoon.
The first man to go in was a captain and when he came out again obviously alive and seemingly healthy, the doughboys were ready to take a chance.
He must have heard somehow or other about the coming of the Americans for he left the Germans at noon one day when the doughboys had hardly become settled in their new home.
They galloped the doughboys up and down the village streets in furious piggyback charges.
American company commanders were quick to appreciate the value of organized singing in the training of troops, and for the next few days the doughboys were drilled to lift their voices as well as their picks.
The doughboys anticipated trouble with the titles and the closeups of what the heroine wrote and all the various printed words which go to make a moving picture intelligible.
Meanwhile the doughboys were marching by as silently as the soldiers on the screen, for this wasn't a movie-house where they synchronized bugle calls and rifle fire to the progress of the film.
Perhaps the doughboys were afraid of the old woman for whenever one of them got in her way she would say nothing but push him violently in the chest with both hands.
There were long mornings and afternoons spent in battalion problems in which the doughboys again and again captured the position made up of the trenches Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
The doughboys wrote to their families to the second and third cousin.
The first plan was that the doughboys should advance behind this barrage as in actual warfare and attack a system of practice trenches.
There was less than the length of a bayonet between them but the doughboysdid credit to their brief training.
The second week in the training area found the doughboysincreasing their curriculum to include bombs and machine guns.
Which indicates there may be something doing, as report has it that the doughboys don't intend to let the Q.
When the Alabama doughboys first discovered the narrow gauge railroad, it furnished them high entertainment for a couple of nights.
The stiff resistance in these woods delayed the infantry advance, however, and the doughboys were still occupied in clearing these of the enemy when our battalion pulled through them.
Here was one--by most appearances an American officer--marooned with some American doughboys in the midst of the Germans.
At the same time up and down the trenches and from dugouts the gallant doughboys poured, ready to take revenge for the attack of the Huns.
Not so near, in fact, for there we knew that some of thedoughboys were not more than a mile away.
It was toward evening, and the tired doughboys were wondering what the night would hold for them, when Jimmy remarked: "I'm going to see if I can find Sergeant Maxwell.
With the coming of dawn the artillery seemed to slacken and at 6:05 the doughboys went over the top.
The doughboyswere now moving so swiftly that the big guns could hardly keep up.
In crossing the German trenches, we saw the effects of our artillery barrage and the evidences of the fierce fighting that the doughboys were doing.
When the doughboys were told that they were going over the top at the zero hour, you never heard shouting to equal it; the Board of Trade on a Monday morning was just a whisper in comparison.
It is not an uncommon sight to see a crowd of white doughboys around a piano in some 'Y' or Red Cross hut, singing to beat the band, with a colored jass expert pounding the stuffing out of the piano.
Our big objective has been wiped off the map and our men are preparing to keep right on going after them and backing up the doughboys who are doing such great work.
But I believe that some of these buck doughboys need a bit of jacking up.
Of course you can't very well make a yell about it, but I see several fights on my hands from right now on, until I've gotten these buck doughboys licked into a proper appreciation of the new boss of their squad room.
IX These doughboys had a song that Jimmie had heard all the time: "The Yanks are coming!
VIII Yes, sir, there were twodoughboys in the shell-hole!
And now here he made his last supreme rush, and the French lines wavered and cracked and gave way; and so in this desperate crisis they had brought up the truck-loads of doughboys for their first real test against the Beast.
And of course the doughboyswho read this placard wanted to know if it told the truth.
Jimmie knew, of course, that the policy he had been advocating in America had not tended to that end; if Jimmie in Leesville had had his way, there would have been no doughboys to rescue Jimmy at Chatty Terry!
Doughboys made way for them and insisted on their taking a place at the front of the line, but Grace smilingly declined to do anything of the sort.
There were many offers of a ride on wagons of their train, and doughboys frequently urged them to turn over their kits, to all of which Grace gave a smiling “Thank you” and shook her head.
The secretary took the hint and ‘beat it,’ as the doughboys would say.
Why, the train wreck on our way to Paris with the wounded doughboys was no more of an accident than this.
That’s what the doughboys say about their treatment,” smiled Grace.
Her smash on the bridge was already known to several regiments, and when the two girls appeared, looking as fresh and well-groomed as if they had been serving in Paris rather than out at the front, the doughboyswondered and admired.
By this time doughboys had rushed to the scene, two grabbing her and fairly throwing her out.
Doughboys soon put out the fire in the canteen, but all gave the ammunition dump a wide berth.
They had not gone more than half of the way, when doughboys who had witnessed the accident plunged into the river and went to the rescue.
I had a fine meeting with boys in dugout and am again visited by the doughboys and officers.
These same girls a few days before had fed seven hundred weary doughboys on their march to the front with coffee, hot biscuits and jam.
It is for the doughboys first, last and all the time.
The Salvation Army had been apprised by telegraph that the doughboys were playing in hard luck.
Doughboys came in 12:30, through a barrage, and got sixty-five bars of chocolate, others got biscuits.
The shells were whistling overhead, and the doughboys dropped into nearby shell holes when they heard them coming, but the lassies paid no heed and made doughnuts all the morning, under constant bombardment.
The artillerymen captured great numbers of enemy cannon, ammunition, food and other supplies, which the trucks gathered up and carried far to the front, where they were ready for the doughboys when they arrived.
A couple of tents were secured to provide temporary sleeping accommodation and the men lined up in the chow line with the doughboys at meal-time.
Doughboys bought lots of goods and blessed the Salvation Army a thousand times.
I had an arrangement with the doughboys that they might come in my dugout any hour in the night, whenever they wanted.
Among the doughboys who loved to help around the Salvation Army hut was a quiet fellow who never talked much about himself, yet everybody liked him and trusted him.
Around a warm fire with men who spoke their own language and who did not pretend to be above them in the social scale the doughboys forgot that they were four thousand miles from home and that they couldn't 'sling the lingo.
Well, 'I am crazy about the Salvation Army'--the Salvation Army as I saw it and mingled with it and the doughboys in the trenches.
She's only been here a month or so, and everybody in garrison knows all about her, and these doughboys don't make any bones about chaffing us on our lady friends.
Even old Doyle gets out here in his scarlet plume occasionally and puts us doughboys to shame.
It was finally from the British, who came later as instructors, that the doughboys accepted it as gospel that they must be pragmatic about the dangers, and "act as if.
One of thedoughboys fired at him as he ran and he was carried into the American trenches badly wounded.
They had to have a start in order to get their guns into place, and some fifteen hours before the doughboys went into the trenches America had fired the first shot of the war against Germany.
But what with driving hard work, the doughboys learned finally to land a dummy bomb so that it didn't disgrace them.
The doughboys called him "Froggy" with ever so definite a sense of condescension.
They had merely been instructed to keep marching until they encountered some American officers or doughboys who were not otherwise engaged, and then surrender themselves.
On the other hand, it made the doughboys mad, and, better than that, made them careful.
Instead Clemenceau patted the doughboyson the shoulder and said: "That's the way to do it.
The insurmountable French language, which kept doughboys and poilus at arm's length in spite of their best intentions, broke down with the youngsters.
The doughboys had finally learned their hardest lesson.
American officers who acted as observers along this line for several days before the doughboys went in found that shelling was restricted and raids few.
The number of German helmets which fell to the doughboys was naturally countless.
All the watching doughboys had been instructed to put on their shrapnel helmets.
And by the time the war training was to begin, doughboys and Blue Devils tramped over the long white roads together with nothing more unfriendly left between them than rivalry.
When their turn came, the doughboys showed the Blue Devils the right way to throw a bomb.
Their demeanor was in sharp contrast to that of the American doughboyswho took the matter philosophically and went about their appointed tasks.
A fine example to set to other pilots in our unit, or any of the doughboys in fact.
Some of the doughboys had taken possession of the battered old piano, moved up each day as though it were their choicest possession, as indeed it really was.
But our doughboys took one height Seven times in that hell's hail.
Oft did the poilu sweep them from the field, Their line full oft the stubborn English broke: How frantic did they to the doughboys yield!
The doughboys were rushing forward at a dog trot, with their long toms at right shoulder.
Sheridan had concluded that he could not hold Cold Harbor without infantry support, and the doughboys were eight or ten miles away.
Many and many a Red Cross man and Red Cross woman, to say nothing of veritable hosts of doughboys and their officers, had their first glimpse of lovely France as they sailed up the broad Gironde and into that lovely port of Bordeaux.
Wherefore the comfort bags in the hands of the doughboys as they moved across the park toward their waiting trains.
But the girl had her reward, in the looks of gratitude which the doughboys gave her.
It was covered with gassed and exhausted doughboys who had crept in there in search of shelter.
I have read letter after letter written by the doughboys to the mothers back here, and the mass of them still stay in my mind as a tribute that all but surpasses description.
The movement of the First and Second Divisions in the Beauvais and Montdidier sectors right after increased very greatly this flow of Yankee doughboys into French hospitals--and the American nurses were thrown into them in far greater numbers.
As these French girls of the Paris streets came up to the doughboys the job of the "Y" girl began.
In all of these the American Red Cross played its part, and seeks no greater testimony than that so generously volunteered by the very men who received its benefits--the doughboys at the front.
The cavalree, artilleree, and the lousy engineers-- They couldn't lick the doughboys In a hundred thousand years.
The june ferns and the gossongs And the jolly old mong peres-- Well, they wont fur git the doughboys For at least a hundred years!
When we get to the grave the doughboys set down the coffin beside it and all forms in a circle with me and the widow facin' each other.
So, while Reilly was explainin' to his six doughboysand Rathbone was bringin' Napoleon One up to date, me and the widow and the marine goes over to superintend the two birds diggin' the grave.
Amen,' sez all the doughboys and the gobs, except one that yells, 'Alleluia!
When we get back the six doughboys is all ready to give first aid to the coffin, and Rathbone is talkin' to Napoleon One like they was brothers.
The doughboys and the gobs, all except Rathbone, who is wise, acourse, begin to nudge each other and snicker.
Well, sir, Reilly was a good scout, and inside of a minute he had six doughboys lined up behind the hearse and him bringin' up the rear in the side-car.
Three husky doughboysof the American Army put to flight by a horde of rats!
All the same, they'd be picking the bones of those same husky doughboys if we hadn't vamoosed," defended Billy.
The man again started to protest, but one of the doughboys who was on guard gripped him by the collar and dug his knuckles into his neck as he yanked him back.
Pistols were drawn, but the doughboys knocked them out of the conspirators' hands, and in a twinkling had the men gripped and powerless.
God help any of the doughboys that are going up against any of that stuff," Griffin observed through his mask.
If you doughboysstart anything without the artillery, you'll see Berlin through the bars of a prisoner's cage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doughboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
