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...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...
...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...