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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-02 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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I repeat: those locks ought to hold the fort. My assistance wasn't enough. The thing - the lock - had stuck. Finally madame came paddling down in her sneakers and, applying her knowledge of its tricks wrestled with it until it yielded. A she-war-correspondent is making a tour of our sector now. Aren't you glad I am not conducting her? We sent her out today in care of "Yank" Wilson, who is from Texas. He speaks Texan in the form of "I don't guess" and "whah yo-all goin'?" and so on, which ought to please her since she is originally from Missouri. I met her first tonight when she was wanting to know if she could say certain things in her story. I was heartless; I assured her they wouldn't pass. Being a thoroughly married man I'm not susceptible to feminine persuasion - on this side of the Atlantic. My ink failed on me last night, and I am now writing in the office next morning. The communique arrived a few minutes ago and I have had the great please of setting my row of pins representing the battle line north of the Marne farther on in the direction of Berlin. The whole line in that salient advanced about five miles yesterday. What cheering news that is you would understand better if you had studied the news day after day and week after week as we did last winter without observing any sign of important change. The fighting above the Marne now is all in the open and Americans are proving that their heritage
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I repeat: those locks ought to hold the fort. My assistance wasn't enough. The thing - the lock - had stuck. Finally madame came paddling down in her sneakers and, applying her knowledge of its tricks wrestled with it until it yielded. A she-war-correspondent is making a tour of our sector now. Aren't you glad I am not conducting her? We sent her out today in care of "Yank" Wilson, who is from Texas. He speaks Texan in the form of "I don't guess" and "whah yo-all goin'?" and so on, which ought to please her since she is originally from Missouri. I met her first tonight when she was wanting to know if she could say certain things in her story. I was heartless; I assured her they wouldn't pass. Being a thoroughly married man I'm not susceptible to feminine persuasion - on this side of the Atlantic. My ink failed on me last night, and I am now writing in the office next morning. The communique arrived a few minutes ago and I have had the great please of setting my row of pins representing the battle line north of the Marne farther on in the direction of Berlin. The whole line in that salient advanced about five miles yesterday. What cheering news that is you would understand better if you had studied the news day after day and week after week as we did last winter without observing any sign of important change. The fighting above the Marne now is all in the open and Americans are proving that their heritage
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