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Socked away at the back of the collection “Blandings Castle and Elsewhere” are the five “funniest short stories about Hollywood ever written,” per Michael Hiltzik.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Well &Truly Socked Sirs: You must by now be fairly sick of receiving letters of admiring congratulation.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Socked me with my own club!" he exulted, laughing delightedly, boyishly.

From Masters of Space by Berry, Robert Lee

Socked and hollified," echoed little Fay, delighted with the new words, "socked and hollified!...

From Jan and Her Job by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)