Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when emergency cables began pouring into London from Jerusalem last week. A crisis of the most extreme urgency, in the opinion of the British residency in Palestine, was emerging from the Arab General Strike now in its twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment was issued to them, and shown to transports for Palestine. One battalion each of the King's Coldstream and Scots Guards was left in Britain but the rest of the First...
...Officer members of the Olympic party disgraced themselves during a performance given for the benefit of the athletes. I refer to the mock marriage and mock trial ... so shocking that many athletes walked out of the social hall. . . . The trial was presided over by Gustavus T. Kirby who so handled the dialog having to do with marital situations that it was open to questionable interpretations and altogether unsuitable for youthful ears...
...Queen Mary was persuaded by her little granddaughters. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, to help them with a game of "Presentation at Court." After several mock presentations...
Under the gallery stares of frowsy jobless, who for eight days had camped on the floor holding mock sessions (TIME, May 4), New Jersey's reassembled Assembly last week shunted the relief problem back to helpless municipalities. It passed a bill, approved the same evening by the State Senate, which sets up a commission composed of Governor Harold G. Hoffman and four Republican officials to disburse State relief money if & when available, failed to provide a tax system to raise it, adjourned...
...vigorous indignation with which Manhattan's critics attacked the latest Nichols production indicated that their powers of vituperation had not abated in 14 "jerky," years. They "dated," called "uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock anxiety, how ever, most of them echoed the conclusion of the Times's Brooks Atkinson : "If it were not for the painful instance of Abie's Irish Rose, a critic might feel safe in dismissing Pre-Honeymoon...