Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just a short, fat, baldheaded man who has learned much in the last year and will learn a lot more in the next few weeks." Not all the campaign speeches of Editor William Allen White, self-nominated anti- Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, have been as genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political...
...Labor cartoons ridicule those of the Conservatives and Liberals, mock them for calling up a fantastic Bolshevik spook. The captions: "The weather will be dreadful under Communism" ; "The Communists will stab poor grandpa...
...Democratic Club has not yet announced its choice. The National Democratic organization has, however, tentatively promised one of three notable men. One is Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, the nominee of the mock-Democratic convention in the University last spring. The second possibility is Newton D. Buker, Secretary of War in the Wilson administration and prominent League of Nations advocate. The third man who has been mentioned is William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner. A definite selection of the Democratic speaker is expected within...
...short month ago the United States celebrated a National Defense Day with great show of mock-mobilization, much waving of flags, and a flood of rhetorical exhoration by generals and others who should have known better. This week, in Berlin-military leaders of the two great warrior-countries of Europe, whose quarrels have been the great obstacle to peace for three hundred years, are leading a world peace congress in the denunciation of war. General Verraux of France and General Shoenaich of Germany attack their own trade with true military straightforwardness...
...that any of the supporters of the various student political clubs will achieve the office of President, all of them will assume the duties of citizenship. To know something of the nature and method of political organization is doubtless of value to the voter, even if acquired in a mock manner. It is to the political genious alone, as Roosevelt's career seems to testify, that participation or non-participation in student activities is a matter of complete indifference...