Word: painted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...official A. E. F. newspaper,," in which many of them found their first publication. "Most of them were drawn at odd moments during the French push of 1917 near Malmaison, at loading parks and along the roadside while on truck convoy, and while on special permission to draw and paint with the French army . . . The rest were drawn on American fronts from the Argonne to Belgium...
...become so. The ink was searcely dry on the armistice papers, however, ere the grim spectre of militarism was promptly forgotten in the eager planning for a speedy return to the ante-bellum order of things. The steady maturing of these hastily made plans is swiftly removing the "war paint" from the University...
...rate at which the change is being made will soon have divested the Colege of the last lingering signs of the days of military regime. They were days which, had their advantages and their disadvantages, but undoubtedly very few would elect to live them over again. Let the "peace paint" be applied ever so rapidly, the grim effects of war cannot be effaced too soon from the normal activities in the University...
...shall, but meantime I am of necessity content with amateur concerts by the Poilus. Night before last a Lieutenant had a sketch produced as the "feature" of such a concert, and I went as his guest. There were semi-singing comedians. Why do all comedians in France paint their faces so broadly red and white? And their songs border on the decent sometimes, remarkable as it seems. One man sang bits from Nanon. He resembled a winter-garden chorus man about the face and timid sweet gestures--but he wore two blesse stripes, had a yellow-and-green four-ragere...
...history of the University, for Harvard has at last an officers' training corps for Navy men. The ensign school, formerly at Technology, has been moved here. With the radio school in full swing and the ensign candidates coming here for instruction, the University is indeed in war paint...