Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth living...
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...
...Poincaré is proving a difficult man to remove, principally because he is backed strongly on account of the Ruhr, and the Near East question is becoming brighter. France cannot afford to change its Government until the Ruhr question has at least been brought to the conference stage. The mock resignation of the Premier is entirely unconnected with this plot; although, no doubt, efforts were made to take advantage of the situation...
...Society of Harvard Dames will be addressed by Professor L. J. Johnson '87 on "Proportional Representation" in Phillips Brooks House at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The feature of the meeting will be a mock election to illustrate the subject of the speech...
...Telegram has undertaken a great moral crusade: under its scathing fire the corruption rampant among University jokesters will quickly wither. The People of the Commonwealth, awakened through the pages of the Telegram, will no longer permit Harvard to live "only to give opportunity to the feeble-minded" to mock at all that the Commonwealth and the Telegram--holds most sacred...