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Also [[underlined]] notice [[/underlined]] one [[underlined]] ketch [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] two schooners. [[/underlined]] one of them [[underlined]] flying American [[/underlined]] Eungn 
At the hotel and on San Marco [[underlined]] met [[/underlined]] the first [[underlined]] American Legionnaires [[/underlined]] and their [[underlined]] wives [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] sweethearts [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] They [[/strikethrough]] Many wear the Oversea [[insertion]] Over-sea [[/insertion]] fotage[[guess]] cap of 1917. with the name of their state in gold letters : In afternoon and next day they came in increasing numbers [[underlined]] and seem [[/underlined]] to hail [[underlined]] from every State in the Union. [[/underlined]] All in all, they make a good impression are [[underlined]] serious, quiet, [[/underlined]] and much interested in everythig. Contrary to my fears, one sees none drunk now even hilarious. They [[underlined]] look sober, earnest and aboternious[[guess]] and I am glad of it. [[/underlined]]
Some of their women, not all, show more paint on
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face and lips than I should like and contrast with the unpainted women of Italy. But except for an occasional shrill [[strikethrough]] var [[/strikethrough]] uncultured voice they make a rather good impression. Others men and women make an excellent impression.
Afternoon went to visit the famous [[underlined]] Lido [[/underlined]] which closes today. A rather flat uninteresting landscape rather drab; with all its little wooden bathing houses which might just as well be on the beach at Staten Island. Except near the [[underlined]] hotel Excelsior [[/underlined]] which is a [[underlined]] pretentious [[/underlined]] buildig with pretentious prices [[insertion]] prices [[/insertion]] and where those who can afford it mostly congregate. The place was dead and the season is over

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I use the word 'underlined' with a 'd' because that it is my understanding from the instructions. It appears to be a waste of time to reopen and edit just to remove the 'd' from the word 'underlined'. If I review a page and the transcriber does not add a 'd' I don't reopen to change.