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...Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had nevertheless done the best he could for his cavalry friends. He might have enlarged His Majesty's existing Tank Corps and other highly developed mechanized units gradually, while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy sons of generations of British cavalrymen becoming in a few months chauffeurs, mechanics and garagemen...
...joining a church." The training was more tiring than football. For four hours each morning they lunged and pranced before mirrors. In the afternoon they tended the 150-acre farm, sawed wood, dug ditches. Those who went on tour had to be self-sufficient, truck their scenery, pitch and dismount...
...country home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd in Charles County, Md., 30 mi. southeast of Washington. One's face was tight with pain and his left leg, booted and spurred, hung limp from the stirrup. The other, a chinless, watery-eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken leg, put him to bed. At 2 o'clock that afternoon, despite...
...horses. A rescue plane lands on the sand; the pilot is shot as he starts toward the trees. By this time Arab snipers, concealed by the dunes, have picked off all but three of the troop. None of the three can fly but Morelli (Wallace Ford) and the sergeant dismount the plane's machine gun, set fire to the plane and get back to the oasis under cover of the smoke. Sanders (Boris Karloff) goes mad and gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross...
...Dismount and advance one of your number," I suggested; for plenty of natives speak perfect French and it was also much too dark to see the man's face...