Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thenceforth, although clear-visioned and a God's evangelist, she must bear with the mockery of her countrymen. Only Coroebus, though he himself can not believe, does not mock. So alone with him upon the sands, . . . she lifted up her eyes Dimed with the tears of unborn prophecies, and spoke her knowledge, foretelling the ruin of her city, in words that lack neither dignity nor inspiration. And as she finishes they hear the ships. The passage that concludes the poem is filled with the very breath of Night, and the fearful charm of a faintly broken silence...
...York, to which "Jim Storey", J. W. D. Seymour '17, returns to find that has fiancée "Judy", Miss Dorothy Sans, Radcliffe '24, has shifted her affections to a poet of romantic tendencies. Story then sues Judy for breach of promise and has her tried before a mock count of his own choosing, which awards him $100,000. Later he tells the girl the truth of the matter and wins...
...forthwith sues Judy for breach of promise. After a day has been set for the trial of the case. Jim secretly visits several old and trusty friends and persuades them to act as judges at the trial. He succeeds in his purpose and the courtroom is packed with a mock jury, which rules that the unsuspecting Judy shall pay to Jim $100,000 as the price of her broken word...
...Irish side they can, and are, hearing; but what of the other? The other is the British government, which manifestly will not present its evidence before a self-appointed, unofficial body of hostile investigators from a country which is not concerned in the matter at all. Yet the mock court of justice goes on, and every day sends out reports injurious not only to England, but also to American common sense...
...Ambition shall not mock the boast...