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...member of the Newfoundland Regiment, described the hardships of the expedition from first hand experience. "Ypres, considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...
...pessimistic criticisms of everything although the most popular subjects are domestic life, business and personal adventure. But the delight of ridiculing the vices of others makes the comics quite the most interesting feature to the populace; nothing is half so delicious as seeing A. Mutt revealed in all his shallow pretentiousness or Andy Gump annihilated at the very zenith of his unbearable pride and conceit...
MEET THE WIFE-How one man rid himself of an irresistibly voluble wife and returned unknowingly from the shallow grave of his deception...
...hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds in the bright blue bay where, disturbed hardly by a single shell, floated the great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal...
...TIME printed the fact that the report had been circulated, but in no wise vouched for its authenticity. TIME'S story was as follows: From Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used for alligator bait. " The infants are allowed to play in shallow water while expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian approaches his prey, he is shot by the riflemen...