Word: mock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago next May, a small group of earnest, political-minded Harvard undergraduates organized a mock Democratic convention which drew several hundred students to the New Lecture Hall and held them there through two hot turbulent evenings. To a University where undergraduate politics is so noticably lacking, a breath of national politics, especially in a year of Presidential election, brought added enthusiasm both to those who found public issues fascinating and to those who merely longed for a chance to trade ballots, swing delegations, and break deadlocks. The few hard-working organizers provided excellent entertainment, a platform was perfunctorily...
...politics. Already two public lectures have been given under its auspices; and how comes the announcement that three United States Senators and a former Cabinet member have accepted speaking appointments. Among this list of speakers, appropriately enough, is Senator Carter Class of Virginia, who was the "nominee" of the mock convention...
First lapping merrily, then lunging lustily, impudent waves made mock, last week, of seven wise Britons who set sail as an august commission to India. Patriotic, they will slave for more than a year, voluntarily, at a thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary...
...table. The cinema director, whom he recognizes as the revolutionist he sent to prison so long ago, gives him a costume like the one he wore when he was the cousin of a living Tsar. Then the director sends the sad actor, once more a gaudy captain, into a mock battle. Leading Hollywood soldiers across a fabricated battlefield, the Russian nobleman forgets pretense. After relieving for a moment a similar scene in his remembrance, General Dolgorucki dies, not in pretense but in actuality, on his lips the ironic question of a disabled college athlete...
...world has laughed at the name of Beecham?first at Joseph the father, who made a fortune at pill-making, winning a baronetcy thereby, then at Thomas the son, who squandered it* in the name of music, and wheeled about to mock the entire British public for its lack of appreciation. Some three thousand wanted to laugh one night last week in Manhattan when Sir Thomas lifted his baton for his U. S. debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra. He had come on calmly enough, like a slick little middle-aged banker surveying his premises. Then he stepped...