Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next six days the mock session went on continuously. Alliance members slept in their chairs or on the floor. The number of demonstrators increased to 250 and the "Assembly" appointed two "sergeants-at-arms" to keep the children from romping too noisily around the Speaker's desk during speeches. A delegation had a friendly interview with Governor Hoffman, demanded the immediate reconvening of the Legislature. The Governor asked the Legislature to do so. The Assembly leaders agreed, then lost their nerve. Instead, a handful of Assemblymen and Senators gathered informally at Newark for a club conference...
...answer to demands that he borrow money for relief or use State funds appropriated for other purposes. Governor Hoffman issued a statement pointing out that he could do so only in case of "invasion or insurrection." Promptly the mock Assembly adopted a resolution...
...year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...
Within, Fly members sat down to roister together. Outside there was roistering too. In nearby Lowell House, Harvard undergraduates staged a mock broadcast of the dinner at the Fly. Play by play they reported the event from open windows: "Now the President is taking off his galoshes. . . . The President is choking on an oyster. . . . Now he is drinking champagne. . . . Flash! Al Smith has just disappeared in the basement. . . ." The broadcast came abruptly to an end when the police interfered...
...Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound Jew but a citizen of the world. He got back in time to see his emperor Titus die, to be evicted from his house by the new Emperor Domitian, to be made a public mock by the rabble of Rome...