Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beerbohm caricatured the queue of fashionables awaiting a sitting at Sargent's door and Sargent grew to say "paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
...seemed that Nora Bayes black bottomed better than Prince Henry; but when the moment of judging came they "gave the little boy a hand." Florence, stamping her small right foot for quiet, awarded to His Royal Highness the first prize, held it aloft before the crowd, explained in mock Negro dialect: "Dis y'ere fust prize am an ostrich feddah suit o' cat's pajamas...
...particularly a criterion as to the benefits of the much discussed tutorial system, every possible means of gathering information should be seized. Consequently those whom it most interests, those whom it will most affect, should regard it as a part of their personal welfare. There is no need for mock heroics just as there is no place for the purely destructive attitude. What may be looked upon in other places as but one more corruption of the old Germanic regime of higher education and as but a further opportunity to call forth a nonexistent student conscience is to those whose...
...reading more excerpts, Questioner might have brought Shut-Eye to suspect that though the style was Mr. Mencken's the viewpoint was far from his. The page Questioner read from contained 19 press clippings prefaced with Menckenian facetiousness, but the solemnity implied was not, as with Mr. Mencken, mock solemnity. There were two clippings about Rotary Clubs, one about Kiwanis, one about a Chamber of Commerce...
...stupid error. "Heh heh," cackled Mr. Summers after another of Mr. Link's blunders,* and undertook to explain the game as to a novice. Mr. Link grew indignant. So did Mr. Summers, petulant tutor. Mr. Link retorted sharply. Mr. Summers arose and shook Mr. Link by the neck in mock fury. Mr. Link collapsed, died two hours later of a ruptured blood vessel. Mr. Summers, pleading "a playful scuffle," was lodged in jail, alleged manslaughterer...