Word: liverymen
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...Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT. The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses. Residents burned their flytraps in a big public bonfire celebrating the extinction...
Horses. At Chicago's public auction of saddle horses fortnight ago, city farmers and suburbanites outbid horse dealers and liverymen to buy 100 horses at an average of $165 each-$35 over last year's price...
...consists of people of all classes, butchers and baronets, clerks and cooks, lawyers and liverymen. "I used to sell gramophone records," volunteered a fire-truck driver whom the Nazis have kept so busy that he has grown a beard for lack of time to shave. "Funny how a beard gives you a hand with the girls," he added. "I've a good mind to keep it as a permanent fixture...
...inevitably Sir Stephen's turn to be elected Lord Mayor of the City of London. "The City's" gloomy Guildhall was strewn with sweet herbs for the occasion. The Aldermen staggered under the tricornered hats and massive gold & black robes of their nominal office as Liverymen of the ancient London trade guilds. Each carried a nosegay. Trumpets blew. The Liverymen shouted their oft-rehearsed parts. Aldermen who had already been Lord Mayor were told to leave the Common Hall. Then the remaining members of the Grocers. Fishmongers, Butchers, Bakers, Waxchandlers, Armourers & Brasiers, Stationers, Bowyers, Coachmakers, and Glovers Guilds...
Emerging at last through a great door, they introduced and presented to the Liverymen as though they had never seen him before Glovemaker Collett of the Worshipful Company of glovers, a tycoon of British haberdashery. After congratulations all round, Stationer Lord Mayor Sir Percy Greenaway invited Glover Collett into the ornate Lord Mayor's coach, carried him off to a reception at the Mansion House while four trumpeters split the air with deafening blasts...