According to Bill Greenwell's history of the New Statesman competition, that magazines asked back in 1930 for collective nouns for:
chauffeurs, charwomen, income tax collectors, typists, actors, men-about-town, politicians, Jews, Scotsmen, commercial travellers, novelist, dramatic critics and hedgehogs
(From James Lipton's book An Exaltation of Larks, I learned that collective nouns can also be called terms of venery or venereal nouns.)
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