Word: mock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen, and indeed all students, who contemplate entering any get rich-quick schemes would first consult with the Deans of the College, who are always anxious to help them, there would be fewer dollars lost and College careers reined by imprudent mock-business ventures...
...girl; the girl herself; a Mama with suffragette leanings, yet clothed in most ladylike attire; a Papa who made money in Omaha, Neb., transferred it to his wife. and now will drink cocktails on the sly in spite of her; an English lord wanted by Mama for Marjorie; a mock-English lord to do the confusion-of-identity stunt;--all these and more are tangled up in Cook's Office in Paris with the Opera standing bravely in an empty square outside. All of a sudden you find it isn't Cook's; the ubiquitous Thomas has moved...
...clock this afternoon on, "The American City Charter up to Date." Direct nominations, the short ballot, preferential voting, the initiative, the referendum, and the recall will be discussed as means to secure the control of a city by its inhabitants. There will also be a mock election as an object lesson in preferential voting. The lecture is open to the public...
...elocution at Harvard, has for many years been recognized as one of the foremost public speakers in the country. His program for this reading will be made up of selections from standard literature, both humorous and dramatic. The reading will be open to all members of the University. A mock jury trial will be held on March 30. Four attorneys, a judge, a jury of six men, and witnesses will be appointed from the club. The meeting is designed to give practice in work of a legal nature. On April 12 a prize competition in extemporaneous speaking will be held...