Word: four-in-hands
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...design represents an old English coach & four. For seal-sale publicity, rich, sporting William Kissam Vanderbilt did a thing he thoroughly enjoys. He dressed as a conventional coachman, mounted his coach Venture and tooled a spanking four-in-hand before newsreel cameras...
...since 1901 of Philadelphia Court of Common Please No. 5, art partron, Spanish War veteran; of pneumonia; in Chesnut Hill, Pa. Paralyzed after an attack of malaria in the War, he was never inactive. He was well known at indoor and outdoor horse shows, always drove his oldtime four-in-hand...
...turnups [cuffs] on his trousers and you have turnups only on a lounging suit! The trousers aren't striped. And the vest has six buttons down the front. Gloves and spats are de rigeur with a stick and topper, you know. That turndown collar and four-in-hand tie are all right in a way but with a cutaway we should wear a wing collar and a bow tie. I hate to say it but I fear the vest is not quite smart. It should be cut quite low. If you wish to be informal, wear a sack suit...
...quick tandem bicycle sprint from the CRIMSON Building down to Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...
Parson Faunce (the name rhymes with Harvardized "chawnce") is short, dignified and deep voiced. He faintly resembles Cartoonist Bairnsfather's "Old Bill." He has poise, personality, pudginess. He invariably wears wing collars, four-in-hand cravats. Cigars have never yellowed his teeth; spirits have never tainted his breath. He is precise in conduct, a precisionist in speech...