Word: buskined
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...more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 some one rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...
...Sock v. Buskin Sirs: Technically and in all other respects Readers Offer and Redmond are right [TIME, March 11]. Let TIME'S editors reconsider "Classicist John Milton's language in L'Allegro...
...Allegro pictures the cheerful man, who prefers comedy, "Jonson's sock." // Penseroso, on the other hand, pictures the thoughtful man, who prefers tragedy, the buskin. The analogous reference in // Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage...
...TIME concedes itself socked in the sock-&-buskin controversy...