Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work did not reply. Instead, he approved an outburst by his publicity chief, onetime (1919-23) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas. The latter referred to the Raskob letter as "another screed expressing . . . mock indignation"; accused Mr. Raskob of "deliberately dragging in the issues of religious intolerance...
Many new singers are on the Chicago list this year. The sopranos are: Frieda Leider of the Berlin Staatsoper, in her heyday, like Olszewska and well-established in Europe; Margarita Salvi, young, slender and Spanish; Eva Turner, English and ebullient; Alice Mock, a Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year...
...Walter Scott, when he slept there for a night, fancied that ghosts came eerily to mock at him; but Elizabeth Duchess of York has explicitly scoffed at all such "stuff and nonsense...
...stacks will be more than doubled. The new wing which will be perpendicular to the present structure will house in addition to a replica of a court room several professors' rooms, consultation rooms for visiting judges, and study rooms. The court room seating 500 will be the scene of mock legal battles to be held there when it is completed...
...Pods. Asses, even the mock-ass Bottom of .4 Midsummer Night's Dream. enjoy eating peas, pods and all. Other live stock also find them delectable. Humans like the green seeds, but not the pods. Yet the pods contain valuable sugar and proteins. How to make them humanly palatable is a job which the U. S. Department of Agriculture's bureau of chemistry has set for itself...