Word: four-in-hands
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...calls" the parade in the afternoon, barking instructions to the alumni to expedite the procession into Tercentenary theater. The Happy Committee is in charge of the "aides," distinguished members of the 25th reunion class. Harvard aides and marshals are accorded the honor of donning black top hats, white four-in-hand ties and cutaway coats, while their Radcliffe equals sport white dresses with crimson sashes...
...geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University), "a profession," he joked, "as non-Jewish as rain making." The Premier's son made the supreme sacrifice for an Israeli: instead of wearing his customary open-necked shirt, he donned coat and tie. So strange was the four-in-hand, he insisted, that he had to have it tied by his mother-in-law before he left Jerusalem. In the U.S., afraid to undo it, he carefully slid the fully knotted assemblage on and off each...
Security was tightened after the kidnaping attempt against Princess Anne, but there was no secret last week about the British royal family's activities. The princess was off on a West German visit. Prince Philip had a nasty fall when his four-in-hand overturned in Windsor Great Park, throwing him under the horses' hooves. Prince Charles was steaming into Acapulco Bay aboard H.M.S. Jupiter. In fact, the most closely guarded secret was the composition of the royal party at the Royal Film Performance, an annual benefit glittering with stars and royals. This year it was announced that...
Nightclub Entertainer Short says that the bow gives him a "classic and nifty" look. Lawyer Cox changes his bow for a four-in-hand when he argues a case because he thinks that the bow makes him appear frivolous...
...Gang" comedy style, which is considerably more funky and less tailored than the uptown interpretation. And last week the women's page of London's Daily Mirror ran a feature instructing women in a new talent they will need: the art of tying a four-in-hand knot...