Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

Yes you can. They used garters, not the frilly type,
but small bands made from knicker elastic.
Even boys used them on their socks.
Boy Scouts used to attached little pennants of
varous colours.

But I can throw in a oh-those-wacky-Japanese, completely unhelpful,
tidbit from around 1984 (WIWAL). I had a Japanese friend who carried a
tube of "sock glue," which she used to stick her knee-highs up.

Looking up "sock glue" on the Interweb machine brings up many pages
about Irish dancing, so... back to you.

Quite.  Shockingly bad, wasn't it.

Will.

But the movie was very well-done.

http://classicfilm.about.com/od/dvdreviews/fr/allkingmen92006.htm

All the King's Men - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New ...In
addition to its Oscars for Crawford and McCambridge, All the King's Men
won the Best Picture prize. Warren's novel would later be adapted into a
stage ...

The film was great!
Brod Crawford was great!  I don't recall Mercedes McCambridge from that
film, though.

I guess the DVD* is out and around.  And I haven't looked up who is in
the current movie of the same name.

I finally went to the store and paid $5 for a DVD, "Big Fish".  Then, at
my favorite grocery store, I paid $0.99 each for  DVDs: The Santa Fe
Trail (Flynn, R Reagan), Jack and the Beanstalk (Abbot & Costello),
Suddenly (Sinatra), One-eyed Jacks (Brando), Vengeance Valley (B.
Lancaster), and 5 episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show".

*I suspect that, if I should find ATKM (the '49 version) for $5 or less,
I would buy that.  The only films that I have see of those above are the
Flynn/Reagan one and the Abbot&Costello one.   I only watched Andy
Griffith a few times.

That would be a loss for you, as you won't get to read great passages
such as this one:

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A month from now, in early April, at the time when far away, outside
the city, the water hyacinths would be covering every inch of bayou,
lagoon, creek and backwater with a spiritual-mauve to obscene-purple,
violent, vulgar, fleshy, solid, throttling mass of bloom over the black
water, and the first heart-breaking, misty green, like girlhood dreams,
on the old cypresses would have settled  down to be leaf and not a
damn else, and the arm-thick, mud-colored, slime-thick mocassins would
heave out of the swamp and try to cross the highway and your front
tire hitting one would give a slight bump and make a sound like
ker-whush and a tinny thump when he slapped heavily up against the
underside of the fender, and the insects would come boiling out of the
swamps and day and night the whole air would vibrate with them with a
sound like an electric fan, and if it was night the owls back in the
swamps would be whooing and moaning like love and death and damnation
or one would sail out of the pitch dark into the rays of your
headlights and plunge against  the radiator to explode like ripped
feather bolster, and the sticky grass which the cattle gorge on and
never get flesh over their ribs for that grass is in that black soil
and no matter how far the roots could ever go, if the roots were God
knows how deep, there would never be anything but that black,
grease-colored soil and no stone down there to put calcium into that
grass--well, a month from now, in early April, when all those things
would be happening beyond the suburbs, the husks of the fold houses in
the street where Anne Stanton and I were walking around would, if it
were evening, crack and spill out onto the stoops and into the street
all that live which was now sealed up within.

All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, p. 348
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I'm quite impressed with RPW at this stage in the novel.

Marius Hancu