A pair of sox, home-made and pure wool, you ought to send once a week, because you must remember the Red Cross takes care only of the wounded men and not the fighters in the trenches; the government and home folks must look after the fighter in the field.
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Private Peat
It was to honour an Italian boy from New Jersey named Frank Sinatra, the crooner who had become the idol of the nation's bobby-sox set. '
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Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
One or two were wearing nylons; the rest were in bobby-sox.
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Blaze
The bobby-sox were all folded at exactly the same position on the shin.
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Blaze