Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coherence on the tangled emotional morals of a static mankind. Poets Auden and Spender are fiercely, often incoherently impatient of all that. Poet Robinson is a calm skeptic; they, passionate disbelievers. More satirical, less serious a poet than Spender, Auden half-fills his book with prose patches: a mock oration, an airman's journal, geometrical figures, a parody litany. Most observable emotion in Auden is scorn: of those round-table experts "lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down"; of complacent citizens of "England, this country of ours where nobody is well"; of such tycoons as newspaper-owning...
...most please U. S. readers: the sinister witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity...
...last day of the exercise, Admiral Reeves managed to land a strong detachment of marines at Culebra. The sea-soldiers went shouting up the bluffs, brandishing their bayonets, occupied the island and, temporarily at least, Admiral Reeves appeared to be in command of all Central American waters. The mock destruction and slaughter had been terrific. Actually, the Fleet maneuvers had not been carried out without some real losses. One man had fallen overboard from the aircraft carrier Lexington, drowned. Another had been
...hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom he regards...
When the Chowder Club falled to break up the strike meeting, it went to the opposite ledge flanking Widener and staged a mock meeting. In between was massed the throng of 2,000. On one side heads inclined faithfully in the direction of the pacifists. On the other side several hundred hands were raised in a fascist salute. Today this is only fascist tomfoolery. Tomorrow it will be fascism in earnest...