Word: depotism
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...earth-borers. Some will join ponton (Engineer for pontoon) companies, will learn to sweat hip-deep in rivers, laying bridges for the infantry. Others will go to topographical (mapmaking) outfits, to railroad-operating companies, to general service regiments, to camouflage battalions, dump-truck companies, water-supply battalions, shop companies, depot companies...
...when I'm sitting without anything to read waiting for a train in a depot, I torment myself with the poet's dictum that to make a house a home, livin' is what it takes a heap...
Nearest thing to an oldtime cavalry post is a Remount depot. There ex-cavalrymen who have a way with horses "gentle break" Army mounts in 120 days, without rodeo roughstuff. Veterinarians supervise horse conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready...
Dusty and tousled in grimy white ducks and sweater, with a knapsack at his shoulder and an umbrella in his hand, wanderlusty Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger trudged into the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot, was hailed by cops, who wanted to know his name. One officer heard it. grunted: "And I'm William Tell," marched him into the station. There Vagabond Grainger produced his proof, departed unperturbed for a concert engagement at Greeley, Colo...
...much, but near the epicentres they were the most violent ever recorded with modern instruments in solid old New England. Chimneys tumbled, dishes and canned goods fell from shelves, walls cracked, furniture slid. In Milton, Mass, a woman telephoned to police to find out whether the Navy ammunition depot at Hingham had blown up. In White Plains, N. Y. a filling-station attendant yelled that the Kensico dam had burst. In South Portland, Me. a woman got dizzy, fell down, hurt her head. In Manhattan's Harlem a man fell...