Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mock band of sightseers was conducted through a Navy yard to see keels being laid-paper keels...
...traces with mock profundity the awful and mysterious path of solids and liquids through the system. As a running fire to this weighty discourse anecdotes of the great at table pop like champagne corks, snap like crunched marrow bones. There is rare eating and rich reading here...
Head cheese, mock brawn, differs from brawn in that other meat and/or meat by-products are substituted, in whole or in part, for corresponding parts derived from swine...
...native and military life in North Africa. He is one of the few novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words-jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!-without seeming unduly affected. His dialogs crackle, his humor sparkles. He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir. He introduces Mary's Cockney maid, Maudie, to ridicule "sheik fiction" of the E. M. Hull type...
...scene of an extraordinary mock session staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into...