Word: coachmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quiet contempt for uniforms. We tolerated them on railroad trains and in street cars, because they proved a convenience in helping us to identify the conductors. We rather liked to see them members of parading "jiners" and musical bands. They didn't set so well on bell hops, coachmen and chauffeurs; there they suggested to us an increase in snobbery. On policemen, firemen and mail carriers they gave no offence because these men were recognized as essential democrats in spite of them; and we knew that they had a good effect among "foreigners." We saw so few army and navy...