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Show TRIES TO TRACE ARMY SLANG "Doughboy," "I'll Tell the World" and "OtJt of Luck," "Old Stuff," New Yorker Says, If the American "doughboy" who started "111 tell the world" as a characteristic char-acteristic expression of the A. E, F. took pride in having coined a new expression ex-pression he was "out of luck," according accord-ing to Henry Dwight, Yonkers, N. Y., who has been trying to trace army slang to its source. In relating his uncertain success and asking the assistance of the demobilized demobil-ized world at large, Mr. Dwight declares de-clares that each of the three supposed Innovations is time-worn. Referring to the expressions quoted above, he claims that General Custer, the Indian fighter, used "doughboy" in letters to his wife, and that Arthur Young, writer and traveler, announced himself as being "out of luck" when hunting for mall at Dijon, France, in 1789. 'Til tell the world" remains un-traced. un-traced. It la thought to be very old and verification of this belief is now sought. |