Word: mimic
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There is a bit of strangeness in her rules. For years she was the perfect lover in mimic life, the Brunhilde, the Isolde, the Norma. But now she refuses to give lessons to young women who are in love. When a girl falls in love she is ousted from Lilli Lehmann's school...
...constructive suggestions. One of these is that authors for the screen must write better literature,--startling doctrine from a "movie man"! The average literary critic looks upon the scenario writer as on a lower rung in the anthropological ladder and on the actor as a mechanical if "artistic" mimic who follows his director's instructions as far as they are printable. The actor turns on the scenario writer in self-defense, and both combine to denounce the critic...
...picking an All-Service team has been the letters from coaches, many of them in the service themselves. To the query, 'Which of your football players were in the service?' man after man replied, 'all of our players were in the service.' The gridiron game proved its worth. The mimic battles were productice of the spirit that won a world...
...ships will rendezvous at some New England port at the beginning of the summer. The first weeks will be spent cruising about from Portland, Me., to New York, dividing the vessels into two fleets for mimic warfare, and while lying at anchor, learning to lay mines, to handle the boats, and to overhaul the machinery...
...been on several occasions recently, no one can expect the management to render complete satisfaction to all concerned. On two or three Friday evenings within a month good lusty enthusiasm in the form of hearty singing and cheering has degenerated into unseemly contests of sugar throwing and mimic battles with bread. Such methods of expressing enthusiasm are quite beyond the bounds of gentlemanly conduct and are frowned upon by the majority of the members of the hall. However, in addition to annoying most of their fellow-diners and preventing the management from rendering its best service, these men who persist...