Word: four-in-hands
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Dazed peasants in County Limerick, staring up this week from their fields, may have thought the Old Boy himself was whipping those demon horses and riding that painted coach down the road to Rathkeale. But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards, sounding an ancient English horn in the good Irish air. Revived by Viscount Adare, perhaps as a publicity gag for wife Nancy's holiday inn at Adare,† the stagecoach carries 25 passengers, will make three de luxe trips each week...
...awestruck newsmen in London, who noted his rumpled suit, his rumpled hair, his Willkie campaign necktie-a blue four-in-hand with white stripes spelling his name-he declared: "I have nothing to say except that I have had a fine passage over and that I am here." In Lisbon he had made it as plain as he could that he and the President saw eye to eye on one matter: "The objective of giving full aid to Great Britain finds myself in full accord with President Roosevelt." First of the many Britons whom he questioned was the chambermaid...
...sixty-six Aides, chosen from the Class of 1912, which holds its twenty-fifty reunion this year, and the fifty-seven Marshals from various classes, will wear the traditional garb of Harvard Commencement officials, -- dark cutaway coats, with four-in-hand scarfs and silk hats. They will carry batons, emblematic of their office, and will be responsible for the smooth operation of the Commencement program, including the Alumni spreads, the procession, and Sever Quadrangle exercises...
Third-best liar was Mrs. C. B. Forman of Attalla, Ala. Her tall one: A whirling cyclone blew the knot out of an Alabaman's four-in-hand tie, whipped the tie around a greeting card and Christmas package which it delivered to the Alabaman's cousin in the next county...
...conduct in 1912 that she really became a national celebrity. Delighted, Eleonora Sears adopted shocking costumes for swimming, sailing, figure-skating and tennis. Before that, she had been up in an airplane with Grahame White (1910), paid a $25 fine for driving without a license and driven a four-in-hand coach down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on a January morning to win a $25 bet (1912). She had swum 4¼ miles, from Bailey's Beach to First Beach. Newport, and formed the nucleus of a collection of cups which, when she last counted them, numbered...