Word: remounts
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...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...
...four times as many men in Europe as it had at any time during the last war. Last week the A. P. sent a man 350 miles from Rome to the heel of Italy to get a 200-word story whose chief item of interest was that the Italian remount service was inspecting the local donkeys. In July 1914, Karl von Wiegand cabled the U. P. 138 words on the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia and was called down for wasting tolls...
...stallion many times, the thoroughbred strain is considered to be, by most thoughtful breeders, a matriarchy. Another popular misconception regarding the thoroughbred horse is that all thoroughbred horses are race horses. Today thoroughbred blood is being used everywhere by private and commercial breeders, including the United States Remount, to breed horses for hacking, hunting, cavalry, steeplechasing, polo...
...wailing at the sad event; equally great was the pleasure of the assembled multitudes when one of the members of the throng stepped forward, pulled up his pants to his knees, and ran into the water to his waist. Seizing the floating trophy, he was about to remount the bank, when he was seized with the happy idea that it was now his, and his alone...
Suddenly emerging from hiding, General Johnson appeared at NRA headquarters, called all hands into the auditorium. Quoting freely from the classics, the Bible and the remount depot, the voluble warrior urged his followers not to resign through "sentimental foolishness," thanked them for their devotion. Said he: "I predicted this end from the very beginning. Red fire at first, dead cats and oblivion at the end." There was not a dry eye in the house, including the General's when he concluded: "Goodby. God bless...