Word: dray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the speed and grace of an old dray horse, High Towers creaks along with the meandering story of the mighty Le Moyne family which settled in Montreal in the 17th Century, profited from the fur trade, drove the English out of Hudson's Bay, intrigued at the French court and created New Orleans. It is also a tears-and-sugar romance about Félicité and Philippe, humble hangers-on of the Le Moyne household whose love is frustrated by French colonial policy...
Nevertheless, in black markets all over the kingdom, butchers, farmers and restaurateurs were buying & selling horse meat of all ages for the table. "Tyke a big dray, naow," said a cockney slaughterer, "at 900 pahnd in skin and shoes, 'e'd only bring 40 pahnd when 'e was boned, but on the black market 'e brings near four bob a pahnd." Customers, aware and unaware, were eating heartily. "A nice bit o' minced 'orse, with plenty of carrots and onions," said a Doncaster housewife, "and I defy anyone to turn up 'is nose...
...Labor Leader Bevin used to drive a ginger-beer dray...
Those who turned up in Capetown promptly raided the town's big breweries, kissed all the kissable women, commandeered the town's dray horses and staged a Melbourne Gold Cup race down the main street. But now they wanted to fight...