Word: sock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert, it was necessary to travel to Philadelphia, to a respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted a small coal & ice business nearby. Her mother went out to do white folks' housework. Marian's big day of the week was Sunday when, all stiffly starched, she went to sing...
...Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai and Hongkong before reaching Manila, Vice President Garner observed: "We'll play a little draw poker, I suppose, and talk about each other. They say we may meet the Emperor of Japan. I've brought along a couple of pairs of new cotton socks so I won't be embarrassed like William Jennings Bryan. He had a hole in his sock when he took his shoes off to meet the Emperor...
Social Credit Is What? Few Alberta voters seemed to know much about Social Credit last week, merely having faith in Messiah Aberhart's assurances that it is not Communist, does not seek to abolish private property or Capitalism and is a positive sock at "The Bankers...
...Detroit, after he had lost $2,000 in Government bonds at a revival service, the Rev. William H. Grain said. "I can't understand it. I had them tucked away in my sock, with the bottom of my long underwear pulled down tight over the sock. Mind you, though, I don't suspect any of the brethren...
...office where they found the stage all set for an extraordinary performance. At one side of his desk were stacked about 20 selected telegrams; at the other lay an open copy of the Supreme Court's decision. In the background sat Mrs. Roosevelt, knitting a blue sock. Another chair behind the President was reserved for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Robinson who arrived ten minutes after the show started. Circulating among the correspondents was Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, old, wise, grumpy...