Word: coveys
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...groom's own families, the Kellys from Philadelphia, the Grimaldis and Polignacs from divers corners of Europe, a kaleidoscopic assortment of celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic, ballet troupes from London and Paris, sailors from visiting warships, a scattering of second-class princelings, an unidentified covey of international thieves (who got away with a whopping $150,000 during the festivities), and some 1,600 accredited representatives of the world's press, mostly self-centered and angry...
Speaking to a rapt covey of newshens, Pollster George Gallup, mindful of the time when his prophecies all but installed Thomas E. Dewey in the White House, made it clear that he will crawl out on no limb this election year. Announced hypercautious Dr. Gallup: "As I look into this crystal ball, I see a light flashing and hear a small voice saying, 'Remember 1948.' It will be my intention in this campaign simply to use the magic words, 'Let others make the predictions...
Four dons were walking down an Oxford street one evening. All were philologists and members of the English department. They were discussing group nouns: a covey of quail, a pride of lions, an exaltation of larks...
...five appearances on the show, was taken on as a good-will ambassador by a rubber heel and sole company at more than $10,000 a year. One of the show's questions even attracted the attention and objections of an art connoisseur (who was overruled by a covey of other art critics and the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Merchant Malcolm S. McCorquodale and World Court Judge Sir Arnold Duncan McNair. ¶Knighthoods (and the right to be addressed as "Sir") went to the British West Indies' onetime rabble-rousing Labor Leader William Alexander Bustamante, who used to cock a snook at Crown and Empire, to a covey of retired generals and admirals, and to a solid phalanx of businessmen...