Word: huntsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then at 1:30 p. m., a popular broker and huntsman named Richard F. Whitney strode through the mob of desperate traders, made swiftly for Post No. 2 where, under the supervision of specialists like that doughty warrior, General Oliver C. Bridgeman, the stock of the United States Steel Corp., most pivotal of all U. S. stocks, is traded in. Steel too, had been sinking fast. Having broken down through 200, it was now at 190. If it should sink further, Panic with its most awful leer, might surely take command. Loudly, confidently at Post No. 2, Broker Whitney made...
...next morning's meet of the Caldbeck hounds the velvet-capped huntsman of the pack called his hounds, and woke the echoes and stirred the Vicar's sleep with the original battered copper horn of John Peel himself...
...correct the usage of a word in your review of Sassoon's remarkable book, "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man" which you entitled "Huntsman...
Your reviewer also says, "Author Sassoon is not only an able fox-huntsman. . . ." There is no such word as "fox-huntsman." Webster might consider that anyone who hunts is a huntsman, but if our contributors on equine matters used the word loosely in The Alain Liner, we should receive letters of friendly ridicule, if not scorn...
Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...