Besides the letters (to a range of correspondents stretching from John Lennon and John Updike to Rajiv Gandhi and the socks department at Brooks Brothers), there are memorandums (many to the four Presidents he served, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford being the others), notes to himself summarizing conversations he considered important, and entries from his private journal, which include some delightful travel writing.
The tradition of hanging stockings by the chimney came from England, where the story was told that Father Christmas dropped some gold coins from his pockets and they were caught in socks hanging by the fire to dry.
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Now the 49-year-old is raving about the eight pairs of socks he owns from Teko LLC, in Boulder, Colo.
He suggests training on a slide board in socks sliding from side to side on the slick surface to work the thigh muscles.
Thompson said people should always wear padded, acrylic-blend socks, which wick moisture away from the foot, under properly fitted shoes that have plenty of toe room and support.
My partner may well have 40 identical pairs of black socks, accumulated from Christmasses dating back to the early 1990s.
Recently, he has added to those footwear flourishes by mixing cardinal red with bishop purple socks from Gammarelli in Rome, suppliers to the Vatican.
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Sears, an American retailer, assembled a clutch of brokerage, insurance and property companies in the 1980s hoping, as wags put it, to sell everything from socks to stocks.
Dressed in a flannel nightgown, socks and a down jacket, her body was found floating about a mile from the yacht, according to police reports.
"My sister was not a swimmer and did not know how to swim, and she would never go to another boat or to shore dressed in a nightgown and socks, " said Lana Wood, referring to theories that the actress may have voluntarily jumped from the boat, last year.
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