stockings

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Back in the States several months later I mailed her three pairs of nylon stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Wall Street’s bankers can expect a little something extra in their stockings this year, but there’s a murkier outlook for 2026.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

Suddenly, with her inspecting me so, I worried that my stockings might have a run in them.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson