Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coward, that he had done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold to him. Meanwhile Lydersen, who had shown fight only because of panicky surprise, becomes a hero, scorns Berger with the rest. Only one man, Rognaas, a fellow lodger of Lydersen's, makes mock of his heroism, tells him that Berger was the only sensible one of the three...
...mock court-martial will be enacted by members of Military Science 4 at 7 o'clock on Monday evening in the Senior Common Room of Eliot House. The proceedings are to be open to residents of the house in so far as the capacity of the room permits...
...heard of the class constitution. They cannot therefore vote intelligently on the matter. Granted that it is a perfectly adequate constitution, and its features are pleasing to all, no man should be asked to vote on a constitution he knows nothing about. Such votes if cast are unintelligent, and mock whatever democratic features we have left in our system of class government...
...social causes. She did volunteer settlement work, researched the cost of living, helped locally with Belgian relief, returned to Denver to serve as chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court under Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (since ousted). For her liberal views her father had scant sympathy. He used to mock her efforts to reform Industry and Labor. When he died in 1927, Miss Josephine inherited a large block of Rocky Mountain stock. She bought more, bought control of the company in 1928. Soon thereafter Rocky Mountain Fuel began making Colorado industrial history...
...racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...