Word: four-in-hands
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...goose and turkey that he bags on shooting expeditions. He also likes to sew?a talent he picked up from his tailor-father. His dress runs to conservative dark suits. When he was Governor, Muskie invariably wore a clip-on bow tie, but he has since returned to four-in-hand ties. Though his tall, ruggedly handsome figure is an undoubted contribution to the image of the ticket, his five-inch advantage over Humphrey will inevitably invite Mutt and Jeff caricatures...
...parents' day. No more marble palaces or French chateaux imported stone by stone; no more parties reminiscent of the triumphal march in Aida. Instead of encouraging the peasantry to goggle enviously through our iron fences or line the roadside as we take the air be- hind a four-in-hand of matched greys, we ride around invisibly in Buicks and keep our houses as well screened from the road as possible...
...senses, he believed that "the world of appearance is the only one we will ever know." While the existentialist crowds stormed intellectual bastilles, he coolly sat down to write in his luxurious apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne, carefully dressed for literature (blue serge suit, quiet four-in-hand, expensive leather carpet slippers). An unabashed Anglophile, he became a one-man diplomatic corps to the English-speaking world; from the Anglo-Saxon point of view, he was Our Man in Paris...
Late afternoon rain did not dampen the high spirits of the reunion's first day. In their reunion kits, members received rain hats for themselves and their wives. They were also given a choice of emblemmed wastebaskets, ashtrays, soap, drinking cups, and the traditional four-in-hand class tie. Tootsie rolls, a cigarette lighter mounted atop a grapefruit soda can--"for classmates, wives, and seniors only"--and Greek bags for the ladies were also offered...
...dark suit worn with a white French shirt and a four-in-hand tie is the next step down in formality. And this may be the wave of the future. As customs in dressing become more casual, even formal wear manufacturers succumb to popular practices. At a recent formal wear manufacturers' convention, "black tie" was optional, and 90 per cent of the men arrived in dark suits. But dressing formal can be an enjoyable production, and in tradition-bound New England, formal occasions requiring formal dress fortunately still do arise...