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...best seller in the socks scene is a style known as the "toe sock" or "wiggler," which fits, glovelike, in between the toes. The toe look is so successful that one manufacturer, Bonnie Doon, will soon introduce a mitten sock that has one section for the big toe, another for the remaining digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Sock-O Look | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...Bool," Newcombe cracked, "'e'd get doon ohn 'is knaighs and kiss the bludy coort if he woon own like tha'." The locker room exploded, and Stolle shrugged...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Longwood Success Fails To Dim Stolle's Life | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

...bids him Anyhoo, sit ye doon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring 50s | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greek in the Heather | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...which to do his writing, it was Jane who directed its construction. When he was exhausted with overwork, it was Jane who laid him tenderly on the sofa and hushed his sonorous Scots groans by sitting down to the piano and playing "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon." When he spent one vacation savoring the simple pleasures of lying under a tree, Jane could not help reminding a friend that there was a very large tree in their own backyard-"but it were too easy to repose under that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grains of Gold | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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