Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most of Reporter O'Malley's copy, his mock autobituary is fanciful. Born in Pittston, Pa., he belonged to a family far from obscure. Of his four brothers, all dead. Joseph, John and Austin were physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell...
William Danforth, lately stopped from the Mikado's throne, strode about in the mock-gloom of a black cape and hat, hissing patter-songs between his teeth, or bellowing out a sinister line a quartertone flat, to make your blood run cold...
Jokesmiths all over Russia were making public mock last week of Terpilici State Farm near Leningrad from which 89 cows "disappeared" in a single recent night...
...unlikely that a Negro will be elected to the U. S. Presidency for many a generation to come. But even in the South a Negro may take an academic interest in politics. Hampton Institute (Virginia) did not, like certain other institutions, hold mock conventions last spring to nominate presidential candidates. But last week it went the white colleges one better, announced an "election" to be held Nov. 4,- an ''inaugural ceremony" March 4. In the November election. Hampton students will cast their ballots not only for President and Vice President but also for Chief Justice of the Supreme...
...being subjected to an extraordinary inquisition. . . . The proceedings before the Governor developed into a travesty, a mock trial, a proceeding in comparison to which even the practice of a drumhead court martial seemed liberal...