And they lost their tails and got so they would wear neckties and have post offices and depots and religions," added the historian in a final flash of memory.
That's the reason they came up from monkeys, and got civilized so they wear neckties and have religion and post offices and all such.
As thirty-seven freshmen were in the contest, the sophomores and juniors had to capture five more neckties to win.
All the freshmen would don neckties showing the college colors, and the sophomores, and perhaps the juniors, would do their best to get the neckties away from them.
The very next day some of the lads came out with necktiestwice the ordinary size, and with hat bands several inches wide, all, of course, in the Brill colors.
Three additional necktieswere captured, making fourteen in all.
When the time was half up eleven necktieshad been captured--two of them almost torn to shreds.
All the boys could do was to wrestle and throw each other, and either try to pull the neckties away or hold on to them.
It would mean days of washing and ironing; new neckties and maybe shoes for you boys; and hair ribbons and folderols for Mary and Nell.
They were on tiptoe with excitement and could hardly be made to stand still long enough to have their necktiestied or their pinafores buttoned.
I had begun on collars and neckties when Vio said, "What kind of a girl was that who was here this afternoon?
I had begun on collars and neckties when she said: "What kind of a girl was that who was here this afternoon?
Illustration: I had begun on collars and neckties when Vio said, "What kind of a girl was that who was here this afternoon?
She had fancied the necktieshe should wear, and the pins that should be stuck in them.
Why, he wears great heavy shoes, and his neckties are something dreadful.
Young men, very alert, in red neckties and unbuttoned kid gloves, wheeled and turned recklessly through the streets in light road sulkies, drawn by high-stepping trotters.
Probably selling neckties on the corner or something.
Can you imagine me peddling neckties on the corner?
So Frankling continued to divide time with Ole, and all the fellows whom he had insulted about their neckties and all the girls whom he had forgotten to dance with sat around in perfect content and watched the show.
We own more frat houses, win more college elections, know more about neckties and girls, wear louder vests and put more cross-hatch effects on our neophytes than any three of them.
Stung on the first day of school by a bunch that had to wear their pins on their neckties to keep from being mistaken for a literary society!
Her Norman nose was delicately cut, her manner fastidious, but her collars were carelessly put on, and her neckties had a vaguely one-sided effect.
I wish she could keep herneckties straight, but that is a trifle.
His shirts and waistcoats represented a taste as original as it was not subdued; but it was in the selection of his neckties that he really excelled.
Then we'll not only get him to renew the accommodation, Sam, but we'll sell him some shirts andneckties as well.
I don't mind the copper-fastened pajamas so much, but to wear asphalt neckties and barb-wire suspenders is something which aggravates the spirit.
I will have to dig a tunnel through your neckties to see if you have a cafe au lait or a cafe chanteuse in the trunk.
Their neckties were of the flaming tones of sunset, very large and spreading; their trousers excessively baggy.
Hats flew off and necktieswere straightened, while each one did his best to attend to our wants.
She sat under his preaching with deep humility, and was as much taken in by his stiff shirt and white neckties as if she had not ironed them herself by lamplight the night before they appeared correct and spotless in the pulpit.
His neckties she usually made herself, and when she was in shops she always kept her eye open for silks in very dull or pale shades, grays and olives, warm blacks and browns.
He's forced into business to please his father, and cajoled into the Episcopal Church to gratify his mother, and bullied into red neckties to pacify his sister Isabel.
I'm now going to get up and wear all my new neckties at once.
The neckties which he bought inspired him with fear--the fear lest he might lack the courage to wear them.
And when he had bought neckties he apprehended that neckties without shirts were like butter without bread, and he bought shirts.
As he boughtneckties he felt as foolish as a woman buying cigars.
Any idiot could buy a suit, but neckties baffled the intelligence of the Terror of the departments, though he had worn something in the nature of a necktie for forty years.
He comprehended in a flash that suits of clothes were a detail in the existence of an idle man and that neckties and similar supremacies alone mattered.
And even at the cost of having to check my own neckties I shouldn't like to stand in his way.
I am afraid she would only have seen in it evidence of an infatuation for an undesirable young man, one who smoked and drove rakishly about town in red neckties on Sunday morning.
But you're wrong, my boy; I haven't more than ten neckties with me on this trip.
The ladies put on their most scrumptious dresses, and the masculines blaze in red and blue and green neckties that almost set you on fire.
Her eyes roved warily around the room as Mrs. Wayne talked about her wedding-trip and her husband, folding up her Harry's neckties as she chattered, her fingers lingering over them with little secret pats.
The board hired General Philemon Ward to teach the twenty high school pupils, and it was then he first began to wear the white neckties which he never afterwards abandoned.
Cal Davidson, whatever may be his taste in neckties or waistcoats, seems to me excellent in this other regard.
And even an array of fifty-seven neckties affords poor consolation for the total absence of socks.
As for the neckties I have received--truly, Love is blind!
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