Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same afternoon a similar whizz-smash befell H. H. Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...
...Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor of the performance and the oily excesses of the actors made Elmer Gantry an exciting, though phoney, melodrama...
Reenacting in miniature the scenes of the 1924 convention in New York, the mock Democratic convention last night broke a long deadlock between Governor Smith and former Secretary Baker by nominating Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. The deadlock lasted for eight ballots, but near midnight the rivals gave in and the convention agreed on a compromise candidate. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson, was nominated for vice-President on the first ballot...
...reliance is to be placed on the result of the mock convention, Houston is slated to observe a battle as merciless as New York did four years ago. But the University is hardly to be taken as a measuring scale. The opposition last evening had a curiously immature appearance; there were more favorite sons suggested than the fondest mother states ever dreamed of owning; there was a deep and mysterious undercurrent of exchanged votes. The party may be troubled by as much internal dissension as its miniature, but the peculiarly local difficulty of missing delegations will not hamper...
...sharp contest between Governor Alfred E. Smith and former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and adoption of a plank favoring American intrance into the League of Nations and World Court without reservation, featured the first session of the mock Democratic convention held last night in the New Lecture Hall. The convention will come to order tonight at 7.30 o'clock, and finish its work of adopting a platform and nominating candidates...