Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendency to light comedy among the leading companies is a fortunate sign. One does not sit down and write that light comedies are everlasting entertainment. They do not try to be. They are just light comedies to make you laugh. Forty Winks decidedly is and does. There is a mock melodramatic plot about stolen papers and government intrigue. Raymond Griffith is excellent in the "Cheerio" type of London leading...
After this friendly action the Communists were so overcome that they left the Chamber in a body, the Fascisti rising from their benches and waving them good-by with their handkerchiefs. Deputy Farenacchi, leader of the Savage or Extremist Fascisti, advanced toward them with the mock politeness of a host "speeding his departing guests": "Come again, often," said he. "We are always pleased...
...instruct the Harvard Club players found more plastic material in Cambridge: youth is always easier to mold than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk of asking them to drop out of the league. Are the older men never to drain the sweet cup of victory? . . . . --Boston Herald
...chapel declared that atheism and anarchy were abroad in the university and this was but an outcropping thereof. It was the kind of writing that led to the assassination of President McKinley, thought Pastor Hengell. Said he: "May it not lead some youthful student with a grandiose complex of mock heroics, to assassinate a Madison policeman...
...their trip? They were Major Kennedy for the Army, Captain Steele, Commander Klein and Commander Kraus for the Navy. "Monotonous and comfortable!" said they. They were not seasick. There was no dirt or dust. They played cards. They listened to concerts by radio. They slept soundly. They ate mock-turtle soup and Hungarian goulash with fresh vegetables. They were very lonesome without a cigarette. They missed a little water for washing and they?upon arrival?did not like their wives and friends to see their unsightly three days' growth of beard...