Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Big Teeth You Have. With disarming modesty, Author Adler confesses that only recently has he begun to think about war and peace at all. But this is only mock modesty, the grandmother's cap which Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...
...display of photographs and drawings was made by Rudolf Mock, an architect, with the cooperation of Clarence Stein, city planner...
...mock-up model looked good, although numerous important details were still lacking. But would it work? Before banks and insurance companies could participate in any such risk venture, Federal and State laws would need some drastic revision. Tax laws applying to N.I.C.C. would also have to be revised. If N.I.C.C.'s profits on successful loans are taxed unmercifully, it could not build up reserves to cover the inevitable losses incurred on businesses that flop...
N.A.M.'s second biggest news was much better publicized, much less puzzling, much less painful to those same ears. It came from the keynoter at N.A.M.'s usual $10 blue-plate windup banquet (grapefruit, mock turtle soup, roast turkey and cranberries, sherbet and petits fours-no butter), the man who makes policy for the world's biggest manufacturer: General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...Bleeck's Artists & Writers Restaurant on Manhattan's 40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella...