Wrong Dough
Sirs:
Everytime I read a headline, "Doughboys Invade Leyte," or "Aachen Entered By Doughboys" I see red. Even if we Americans have been the richest nation of the world are we not delusioning ourselves if we accept the term "doughboy" as a synonym for "American"? . . .
RICHARD A. BUFFUM
Editor
The Wesleyan Argus Wesleyan
University
Middletown, Conn.
ΒΆ Let Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for...
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