Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue, the New Republic turns from the crying evils of Wall Street and the White House, and discusses with the same merry gusto the crying evils of the football field. In a long editorial captioned "Pigskin Preferred", reprinted elsewhere in this mornings CRIMSON, the editors discuss with mock seriousness the increasing emphasis which is being placed on football in general, and Harvard football in particular, ending with the solemn proposal that college football teams be placed on a truly business-like basis by the formation of stock companies, organized to manipulate the interests of college football teams in such...
...terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
...overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back clicked Cub Edison: "Send with your other foot...
GREENERY STREET-Denis Mackail -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). To make a novel out of commonplace incidents in the first year of a pair of young English newlyweds, and avoid being "wet,"* is something of an achievement. Author MacKail has done it, with a very nice mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another...
...Flavin's reach exceeded his grasp so far that the lines seemed at times only to mock his genuine imaginative creation. Occasionally, he lapsed into blank verse. Lapsed is the word. Or possibly it was the terrible playing...