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...Washington, a taxi driver found in the back seat of his cab one artificial Negro right leg wearing a sport shoe, sock, and grey trouser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

knitting a sock for an English soldier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: END QUOTE | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

...Sock v. Buskin Sirs: Technically and in all other respects Readers Offer and Redmond are right [TIME, March 11]. Let TIME'S editors reconsider "Classicist John Milton's language in L'Allegro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Allegro pictures the cheerful man, who prefers comedy, "Jonson's sock." // Penseroso, on the other hand, pictures the thoughtful man, who prefers tragedy, the buskin. The analogous reference in // Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...TIME concedes itself socked in the sock-&-buskin controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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