Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Watching wave follow wave of infantry, machine gun and artillery units in a mimic motorized attack, the maneuvers' distinguished guests, including Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a brown and battered Harvard hat, knew that few soldiers would walk to the next...
...Beaming Scouts from Venezuela, Latvia, China, Finland, squatted cross-legged side by side with beaming scouts from Siani, France, Australia, many another country, watched U. S. Scouts perform on the parade ground. They watched exhibitions of wrestling, mimic warfare, campfire making, model house building...
Such would have been newspaper headlines last week if the Army's air war game over Ohio had been real instead of mimic...
...theme" song: Hammacher-Schlemmer* (I Love You). The Grand Street Follies have always depended largely on protean Albert Carroll, impish imitator of the grimaces and posturings of famed actresses. In this latest edition−a mockery fest which simultaneously jibes at world history, actors, producers, Broadway hits−Mimic Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt...
...Burbank, Calif., rain seeped through the roof of the arsenal on the First National lot, saturated smoke bombs causing a chemical reaction that set off the dynamite, shells, grenades, stored there for mimic warfare. A beaver board French village outside, three workmen, and $40,000 worth of equipment blew up fanwise without hurting Corinne Griffith and 40 actors and actresses at work nearby...