Word: four-in-hands
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...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...
...content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties, un- comfortable black shoes. Let the coffins be of plain mahogany draped with Red, banked with odorous Red flowers. So it was, and their neighbors saw them as they had often seen them...
...boats, but an ambulance boat was sent from the Relief and the sick man lowered into it. Aboard the Relief, he was operated on and reported recovering. On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown helmet, batwing collar, four-in-hand tie, brown pongee coat and a cigar in his mouth, led 500 droning singers and nimble dancers for a sava (song and dance contest) for the amusement of the fleet. Despite his 250 Ibs., the chief danced most gracefully. In a brilliant, colorful fatiguing pageant the natives danced themselves half...
...Oxford and Cambridge track teams will arrive in Boston from New York this morning, and will be brought out to Cambridge in four-in-hand coaches, arriving at 11 o'clock. After being shown about the University they will attend a luncheon given for them in the Union by a number of Harvard graduates...
...tennis and sporting goods and of men's general furnishings, contains less second-rate goods, than any similar stock in Cambridge; and the prices are generally the same as those which brought the society so much credit and patronage one year ago. We have a good silk four-in-hand for 30c., usually retailed at 60c.- the best bargain in neck-wear we have yet secured...