Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet at work on one of the curious monuments of our times, giving it that inner meaning without which nothing is worth anything. Indeed, it is this reviewer's opinion that Mr. Parson poem ought to be exhibited along with the glass flowers themselves; that every viewer of these "mimic plants" ought to read this poem as he stares in curious fascination at them. For Mr. Parson has symbolized them, has defined them as the idle curiosity they really are, their verisimilitude to nature only proving their inadequacy as flowers...
...liked school, where he was soon known as a poker-faced humorist and mimic. Chekhov loved practical jokes and disguises, once got himself up like a ragamuffin and fooled his uncle into giving him three kopeks. His teachers were fond of him, but none of them thought him exceptional. When he was 16 his father failed in business, packed his family off to Moscow. Chekhov stayed behind in Taganrog to finish school. When he joined his family three years later, he found them in worse straits than ever. Thereafter, though he had two older brothers, it was Chekhov...
Actor Gardiner last year conquered Broadway by imitating-with a few simple but compelling gestures, an appropriate word or sound and the expression of his amazingly mobile face-such improbable objects as a French train, a dirigible, ugly wall paper. To these sensitively communicated ideographs, Mimic Gardiner has now added a lighthouse (by revolving his body and then suddenly opening his eyes and mouth very wide and hissing slightly when he faces the audience) and a buoy (by crouching, wobbling drunkenly, looking seasick and giving off a bilious bell sound...
...imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral mastery of the island became deadly serious. Being made ridiculous so often weakened Sir Hudson Lowe's already feeble intelligence. When Napoleon was dying of cancer, vomiting consistently, Lowe damned his agony as more play acting, refused the medical care which Napoleon demanded. After two weeks...
Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable...