Word: socked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lewis as Kelp is a nimble simpleton. In Professor's nuttiest sight gag, somebody tosses him a pair of bar bells so ponderous that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...
...smalltime pro soccer player known as Dondinho. Pelé was expelled from the fourth grade for cutting classes to play in barefoot futebol games, using a sock stuffed with rags for a ball. He stole peanuts from railroad cars, roasted them and sold them to get the money for a leather soccer ball. His first job. as a cobbler's apprentice, earned him $2 a month. At eleven. Pelé was spotted by ex-Player Waldemar de Brito. who taught him the game's intricacies, and got him a contract with Santos. The first time he played. Santos...
...Mother Kelly's doorstep, down paradise row I sit along of Nelly, she sits along of Joe. She's got a little hole in her frock, A hole in her shoe, a hole in her sock, Where her toe peeps through...
...parade of empty months. One day, as Stroud paces around the prison yard in a scene so desolatingly forlorn that Dante might have pictured it as another circle of Hell, a cloudburst drops a baby sparrow at his feet. Stroud carries it to his cell, cradles it in a sock, nourishes it on ground-up cockroaches. Relatives of other prisoners start sending them canaries. Soon the entire isolation block is trilling, and convicts who get bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates. A septic fever epidemic decimates...
...cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...