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Word: mock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life in the Law School is a three-years monotony. The wretched slavey in Langdell Hall, with his green eye-shade, green book bag, and unhealthy green face has much need of comic relief. This he frequently gets from the mock arguments of the law club tournaments. The embryonic lawyer, gets all the laughs out of the arguments which he writes into his brief, no more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/19/1933 | See Source »

...have saved the world. The Nazi prosecution did attempt to make some rejoinder to the world's charges that Nazis themselves set fire to the building, by producing alibis for two Nazis-Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau and Lieutenant Schultze-both directly named in the London "mock trial." Busy-buzzing U. S. Liberal Arthur Garfield Hays, one of the leading lights of the London trial, hung around Leipzig for days. Defense lawyers devoutly prayed that he go back to his American Civil Lib erties Union before he got them all into trouble. Judge Bünger finally granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Selbstverstandlich | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...which carries all the property as well as most of the actors and actresses will serve as the stage and will be draped to resemble, a bedroom or a garden as the script demands. In the play, Bernard Shaw invokes all his dry humor against the fanfare of war mock bravery, and the gold buttons. In case of rain the performance will be held indoors in Sanders Theatre. Two years ago when the Jitney Players almost 500 spectators, summer school students and public attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JITNEY PLAYERS TO GIVE SHAW'S PIECE ON MONDAY NIGHT | 7/25/1933 | See Source »

With discipline relaxed the pilots amused themselves like college footballers on the eve of a Big Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the figure of an eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Masses Like Infantry | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...rejected such a successful leader for a second term. A Strother news item : President Hoover planned to call a White House conference on ''The Use of Leisure Time" but never publicly announced it for fear a country suffering from an excess of involuntary leisure might misunderstand and mock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Going Away | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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