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Word: socked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie had to buck Manhattan's hottest July on record, a barrage of bad reviews, the Democratic convention on radio & TV. and the summer box-office slump. But Don't Bother to Knock (20th Century-Fox), reported Variety, reaped a "sock $26,000" its first week, then kept on "holding in fine fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Boys | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...working on an interplanetary motorcycle), and Mary Backstage, Noble Wife ("There's usually an amnesia case or a brain operation going on"). Another character, played by Ray: Mary McGoon, a composite of all women commentators and home helpers (her cure for a cold: goosefat in an Argyle sock, hung around the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spoolers | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Crimson squashmen will sock their second consecutive national team championship this weekend at New Haven, when they meet Hartford tomorrow in first round play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champion Squash Team to Defend US Title at Yale | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

...Donna's head . . . there was a green-and-red-striped necktie next to her. I don't know whether I was awake ... or dreaming . . . but I saw that picture. Something told me to get up ... I went into the bedroom . . . There was no tie . . .I saw some socks on the floor. I picked one of them up ... and stepped over to Donna's bed and lifted her head with my right hand ... I put [the sock] around Donna's neck. I tied it once and pulled. Her arms lifted up ... and then sank back. She didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Come With Me Quick | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Jessel hits his last sequence like a drummer going into a sock chorus. Lotta is in mid-performance in a big New York theater. A letter arrives, seeming to seal the death of her lover in a Southern hospital. Suddenly her father (Hoofer James Barton) rushes in to announce that the war is over. Tearfully, Lotta goes to the center of stage and sings a mournful chorus of Dixie to the outrage of the audience. Her partner (Dennis Day) steps out of the wings, gives the New Yorkers a lecture that echoes Lincoln's "malice toward none," and soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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