Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wooley in the title role took every one by storm. The part is often looked upon as a secondary one and kept in the shadow of the others, but there was no keeping the mimic ruler of Japan in the shade last night, as seven recalls to his first song (and laugh testified...
...associated with St. Saviour's and the Bankside that a youth intended for the church even then, and maybe possessing budding Puritan principles, may not have been unconscious of; while those evidences which lay about him might have given some strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried...
Human life is all a movement: it ought to be a forward movement. One part of it is as real as another. It is too common to consider college life simply as a mimic life intended to prepare men for realities which come later. Men who have graduated do not find their aims more worthy, nor their struggle more serious than those they had at college. Yet the feeling that education all comes before life begins makes it easier for some men to be tempted to waste the valuable present. A generation ago most of the preaching from the pulpit...