Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passport in the U. S. General Coss is an enemy of President Calles and a onetime supporter of Huerta. One of his former subordinates was recently deported by the U. S. into Mexico for similar reasons and immediately shot by Calles' troops after what amounted to a mock trial...
...rose Mr. Rockefeller, his esthetic face long with mock seriousness, his eyes laughing with mischief. He told his thousand auditors that Dr. Fosdick, just back from Europe, had attended a meeting of the building committee the day before, had examined the building plans, had expressed fear that the church would be so long that the preacher's voice would not carry to its depths. He was told not to worry, that of lesser concern than the length of the church would be the length of the sermons. The dining Bible students laughed heartily...
...mock trial is to be held at Langley Center, in the Law school, on January 14 and 15 at 2 o'clock. Its purpose is to make the Law School men realize how a trial is worked...
...abolition of the football game resulted in a great demonstration on the day when it usually was played, the Sophomores drawing a hearse to the field and staging a mock funeral for "Football Fightum...
Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like...