"Ladies from Hell,"Century Company, 1918 - 252 pagini |
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Pagina 11 - I do renounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to any of these : and I do swear that I will bear faithful and true allegiance to His Majesty King George, and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his person, crown or dignity. And I will do my utmost...
Pagina 134 - This will vary, depending on how the skin reacts to the exposure. 3. Be sure that the exposure is carried on in some spot sheltered from the wind. 4. Sun baths may be given on enclosed porches or in the house, provided the sun can shine on the child unobstructed by glass. 5. Certain special kinds of glass...
Pagina 241 - Wilhelmstrasse or among the pleasant forests of the kaiser's own preserves, but, mark you, it is the German people who perpetrate the atrocities. It is the common, middle-class women of Germany who delight in holding a cup of water to the parched lips of a wounded Ally soldier, only to dash it away and spit in his face in derision. It is the German people who cut our soldiers' throats from ear to ear and who give no mercy, though they beg for it so vehemently when cornered.
Pagina 50 - Spread out before me like a panorama, as far as the eye could reach, were the trenches, outlined by hundreds of twinkling, flashing star-shells, some red, some green, others yellow or white. Blot out the sounds and the unmistakable odor, and it might have been a fireworks display at some summer amusement-park.
Pagina 7 - It was enough for me. I awoke. And when I got to the drill-hall there was no mistaking the place, for from a block away you could see the crowd. A long, thin line of young fellows wound in and out of that crowd, each in the grip of that story of the night before.
Pagina 6 - In those days (we have learned more since) we knew nothing of German Kultur. In those innocent, early days a wounded man was a wounded man, no matter what his creed or his color or his race. So our boys took the German and treated him as one of their own, and turned him over to old Doc McNab for attention.
Pagina 7 - d not even bothered to remove the Hun's service revolver, which dangled from a strap at his side...