Word: verminous
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...help to correspondents trying to check up on reports of British Labor Party Leader Attlee's group. But when a reporter asked whether the Communists had rid China of flies, as Attlee's party had said, Applegate, Dixon and Krasner guffawed. They said that their cells were vermin-infested, and killing flies and bugs was one of the few ways they passed their time. Applegate once counted 412 insects squashed on the walls of his cell...
...they came and crying aloud for "Nyrin, a king among men." Nye had gone down in the pits as one of them, with them had ridden the grimy streetcars, allotted to keep miners apart from clean folk. Miners held him their champion when he ranted against the Tory "vermin." In the Labor Party's councils, Nye was a leader of the tough unionists with small patience for the pale, university-trained Fabians such as Hugh Gaitskell. Unless Nye could capture the vote of his own miners, he had no chance of capturing the party as a whole...
Bevan of losing the Laborites "30 to 50 seats" in the 1951 general elections by his reckless description of Tories as "lower than vermin...
...Purges & Vermin. When it first opened its doors, the school seemed anything but permanent. Its vermin-ridden boys died off like flies, and the school itself barely escaped being closed down by the religious purges of Bloody Mary. Gradually, however, it gained a firmer footing. It won the right to license and control all the carts and carmen in London (retained until 1838); it became a favorite charity of various London guilds-the Skinners, the Dyers, the Innholders, the Tallow Chandlers. In 1673 Charles II founded the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, to teach navigation and thus...
...becomes a "Grecian," i.e., gets ready to try for a scholarship to a university, he gets 14 large buttons and a coat with upturned velvet cuffs. The coats have yellow linings that date back to 1683, when the "lynnings . . . as well as ye petticoats" were dyed to discourage vermin...