Word: sock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successive evenings chanced to attend the Theatre Union's Black Pit (TIME, April 1), the Group Theatre's Awake and Sing! (TIME, March 4) and its new double bill, he would probably have gone home with the bewildering conviction that the New York stage had traded the sock & buskin of entertainment for the gavel of Reform...
Christmas was still a month off but many a potent corporation last week began opening its surplus sock and doling out extra dividends. A round dozen announced extras and specials amounting to nearly $10,000,000, bringing November's total dividend declarations to $347,000,000, highest since February...
Brown's brawny Bruins arrived as per schedule, but their equipment did not. At quarter of twelve, not even a stray sock had showed up. At quarter after twelve, Mr. McLaughry was perspiring freely...
...tragedy has already invaded the precincts of Soldiers Field. If it wasn't enough for Coach Eddie Casey to lose all but six of his Varsity men of last year by graduation or other difficulties, the regular Harvard injury jinx had to open its customary season with a terrible sock...
...often the best prospects because they don't get hit so much." He learned to understand such lingo as: "I'm on the fritz, see? And I carries the banner slinking harness bulls. Until glims. Then I batters private plunging like a gandy dancer and red bulls sock into the old heavy-foot himself. 'Tooting ringers for a scoffing?' he says. 'Come wid me, I'll give you a scoffing.' Skating on my uppers I mush talks him out of a hustle buggy ride and into mongee." Catholic charity Investigator Minehan found...