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Show FRIES TO TRACE ARMY SLANG "Doughboy," "I'll Tell the World" and "Out of Luck," "Old Stuff," New Yorker Says. If the American "doughboy" who itarted "I'll tell the wwld" as a char-icterlstic char-icterlstic expression of the A, E. F. :00k pride In having coined a new expression ex-pression he was "out of luck," accord-ng accord-ng to Henry Dwlght, Yonkers, N. Y., ,vho has been trying to trace army slang to Its source. In relating his uncertain success and asking the assistance of the demobll-,zed demobll-,zed world at large, Mr. Dwlght declares de-clares that each of the three supposed mnovations is time-worn. Referring to the expressions quoted ibove, he claims that General Custer, :he Indian fighter, used "doughboy" in .etters to his wife, and that Arthur Toung, writer and traveler, announced olmself as being "out of luck" when nuntlng for mull nt Dijon, France, In 17S0. "I'll tell the world" remains un-traced. un-traced. It Is thought to be very old and verification of this belief Is now sought. |