Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer in order to save themselves. They succeed and give him a mock trial, but before they can kill him the police rush in and the picture ends on a weak note...
Four days after Mr. Winlock thought he had the "curse" story dead and buried it rose to mock him with fresh headlines recording the death of Dr. Lythgoe...
...have a great shock and surprise for you," said Senator Robinson with mock gravity. "Restrain yourself. Congress is organized and ready to receive any communication you desire to make...
...burlesquing an old-fashioned cinema situation. Keating as the villain pretends to usher her into his mountain hunting lodge, offer her a drink. Williams as the innocent young girl pretends to go behind a screen, take off her wet clothes, put on her dressing gown. She enacts a mock defense of her chastity until Keating embraces her in a final kiss that audiences are expected to believe is suddenly genuine, profoundly felt...
...Hays has just returned from the Reichstag Fire trial, and the Mock Trial in London. The subject of his speech will be "The Truth about Hitler Germany." Miss Schultz, who was one of the defendants in the Reichstag Fire trial, will talk about the conditions in German Concentration Camps...