Quiz Guide #16 Bonus Army: A group of World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant lots. Hoover stopped them. Lost Generation: A phrase made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway. Refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe, some after military service in the First World War, include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway. It also refers to the time period from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression.