Word: stablemen
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...years 75 men in the New York City Department of Sanitation have led double lives. Ostensibly employed as street cleaners, stablemen and garbage truck drivers, they have spent much of their time tootling on brass instruments, dressing themselves up in gorgeous blue & gold uniforms to furnish music for city celebrations. The sanitation bandsmen welcomed the King & Queen of the Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they...
...afternoon the truth came out. With tears in their eyes the stablemen announced that Phar Lap was dead...
...Named by his owner. William Woodward, for Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks, U. S. resident director of the Cunard Line. Mr. Woodward has also a horse Sir Andrew, named for one of his blackest, most bowlegged stablemen...
Also convicted were three poultry organizations with typically grandiose racketeering names: 1) The Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce, 2) Local No. 167 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, 3) The Official Orthodox Poultry Slaughterers of America...
...recorded that the Hussar Duke, before riding his race, asked the blessing of the Rev. J. H. Davies, Vicar of Westley Waterless, near Newmarket, who last fortnight said: "I am the chaplain to the King's Horses and the King's Stablemen . . . before the 'Guineas' I asked God's blessing on the stables. ... In answer to my supplication or by Chance, the horse...