Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fervent was Mr. Churchill's mood that, when Laborites attempted to heckle him, he fairly roared: "What! you mock us, do you? Then we will advance upon you with invincible power!" Paying but small regard to modesty, Chancellor Churchill added that "possibly" his new budget program is "the most important measure to be introduced in Parliament . . . since the great Reform Bill...
...bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with mock-heroic satisfaction: "It's just as black as ever-the color of a good Fascist shirt...
From there the story went on through the afternoons of a long-ago summer. From time to time it included poems such as the one which was sung by the Mock Turtle, slowly and sadly...
...Union, and at this meeting signs with the names of the States of the Union will be placed in different part of the Living Room. Students attending the Caraway meeting will be seated by States and the temporary State chairmen will begin active organizations of their delegations for the mock convention. The speech of Senator Walsh of Montana won him many new supporters among the Harvard Democrats, and before May 15 Senator James Reed of Missouri, another Presidential candidate, may come to Cambridge. Governor Smith of New York has declined all invitations to speak outside of New York State...
...dinner held in the Union last night the Democratic Club furthered its plans for the forthcoming mock convention to be held in May, with speeches by two men prominent in Democratic state organization in Massachusetts, and reports from the committees on foreign policy which have been working to formulate the platform for the convention...