Word: socked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week West Derbyshire chose the cobbler's son, gave Winston Churchill and his Coalition Government a resounding sock in the eye. The vote: for slim 26-year-old Lieut. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 11,775; for paunchy, greying (52) independent socialist Charlie White...
...night, Mike Todd, as much a man of the theatre as Noel Coward or George M. Cohan, seemed intent on finding that elusive something that will turn a rambling Hayride into a non-stop express for Broadway's Hall of Fame. Condensation and a half-hour's worth of sock comedy material should do the trick...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 someone 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...
...Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night and Day. Connection between this incident and the surrounding adventures at sea: none...