Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after ten days of set exercises in the 600-mile-square area south of Nashville, they met in mimic battle-the Fifth (Regular) and 27th (New York National Guard) Divisions on one side, the 30th Division (Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina) and the 153rd Infantry Regiment (Arkansas) on the other...
...range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students. To nip stilted, labored styles in the bud, he opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with a load of books, and raising one aloft, announced: "Gentlemen, this is an exceedingly rare edition. There are only two copies in America left." Thereupon, in the professor's best dramatic classroom...
...with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called "white," speculate on whites' lives, particularly as portrayed in movies of the rich. Rarely has literature afforded such ruthlessly intimate glimpses into anti-white thoughts...