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  • One onlooker was a former alderman, James H. Hildreth.†  (source)
  • I thought Mrs. Alderman Parkinson would scold her for interfering, but she did not.†  (source)
  • In turn, the alderman wanted the realty company to build their new shopping center on his cousin's property in the northern section of town.†  (source)
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  • Do you know that Alderman Wilson, the man who says such damning things about us, has a father who is an Anglican clergyman?†  (source)
  • They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen.†  (source)
  • May or November, he had his eleven o'clock breakfast of tea with milk and lump sugar and sweet rolls, dinner of steak and baked potatoes, he smoked ten or twelve Ben Beys, wore the same pants of aldermanic stripe, a hat of dark convention drawing the sphere of social power over his original potent face while he considered what to meld and when to play jack or ace, or whether he could give his son Clementi the two bucks he often came in to ask for.†  (source)
  • On this Saturday Bathsheba was passing slowly on foot through the crowd of rural business-men gathered as usual in front of the market-house, who were as usual gazed upon by the burghers with feelings that those healthy lives were dearly paid for by exclusion from possible aldermanship, when a man, who had apparently been following her, said some words to another on her left hand.†  (source)
  • For every bribed alderman, there are hundreds of politicians—low paid or not paid at all—doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work.†  (source)
  • The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London subscribed for a spacious aquarium-mews-cum-menagerie at the Tower in which all the creatures were starved one day a week for the good of their stomachs—and here, for the fresh food, good bedding, constant attention, and every modem convenience, the Wart's friends resorted in their old age, on wing and foot and fin, for the sunset of their happy lives.†  (source)
  • On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia—a junket that was to last ten days.†  (source)
  • (Steps c.) And surely you don't mean Alderman Meggarty†  (source)
  • They were followed by an officer bearing the civic mace, after whom came another carrying the city's sword; then several sergeants of the city guard, in their full accoutrements, and with badges on their sleeves; then the Garter King-at-arms, in his tabard; then several Knights of the Bath, each with a white lace on his sleeve; then their esquires; then the judges, in their robes of scarlet and coifs; then the Lord High Chancellor of England, in a robe of scarlet, open before, and purfled with minever; then a deputation of aldermen, in their scarlet cloaks; and then the heads of the different civic companies, in their robes of state.†  (source)
  • The most aldermanic, with his chin upon a heart-leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under this northern shore quaffs a deep draught of the once scorned water, and passes round the cup with the ejaculation tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r—oonk, tr-r-r-oonk!†  (source)
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