Word: mock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon has done well to mock a tendency which has become all too general in America. The America of the "parlor snake" is not true America, and Harvard men should be the first to prove this. True art and even true social standards as well as true hearts in the trenches must help us in the eyes of Europe...
...April battalion drills were held on Soldiers Field and all-day Sunday hikes and practice marches were instituted. The entire Regiment participated in manoeuvres and a mock engagement at the estate of E. D. Brandegee '81 and on May 27 marched in the Preparedness Parade in Boston. On May 30 the Regiment at full strength, band, Sanitary Corps, Signal Squad and the motor cycle squad was reviewed and inspected by Major-General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., M.D., '84, in the Stadium and then mustered...
Advertised as an historical romance, "A King of Nowhere," which came to the Shubert last night, is rather to be classed as a mock heroic. The play is ridiculously melodramatic and in most cases hopelessly over-acted. There is a great deal of stamping of feet and waving of arms, and Mr. Lou-Tellegen's arms are so long that one is sometimes reminded of the proverbial windmill...
...letting his imagination loose on what sort of people the Christian martyrs might have been, Shaw is now amusing, now mock-serious, now openly cynical,--and now and again not tactful in the presence of the easily shocked. For instance, where the Christians are cheerfully assigning themselves to places on the Coliseum menu, and one gentleman announces that he is to be the mince pie. Probably, however, this is no more a burlesque on anachronism than to have Roman centurions speak cockney English, or the Roman dandles have all the characteristics of London fops. It might be argued that Shaw...
...second year class of the Law School will give a smoker in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Among the speakers will be Dean Thayer, Professor Williston, and Professor Pound. Lighter entertainment will be furnished by poems, songs, and a mock trial of the "Toodles" case...