Word: mock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...issue is weakest in its poetry. Gray Burr's "Letter to Dead Soldiers" is perhaps the best for its occasional originality of imagery; even its obscurity appears as mock-virtue beside the apparent triteness of most other poems. Ormand deKay's "Floor Show Fantastico" would succeed as a piece of light and amusing by-play if its structure were not completely destroyed by two unnecessary lines, while John Crockett comes no closer to reality in his work on the war than he did when limited to suburban scenes...
...failure of the peace that followed. The third of President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" had been "the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations." But later events served only to mock his effort to eliminate the economic causes of war. The United States resisted with firm Republican resolution all the blandishments and "war mongering propaganda" that sought to make her realize that she was part of the world. Deploring the failure of bad "hired" from the United States, our government proceeded to make repayment...
...hardier unionists ventured on the "blitz course"-the mean, trying 1,000-yard obstacle trail where Rangers are toughened: through barbed wire, up cliffs, over barricades, crawling on their stomachs while tracer bullets streaked above and bombs burst around. For a final treat the Division staged a mock battle, and the weary visitors watched guns and tanks they had helped make swing into action...
Class A is betting on an acquittal in the "mock trial" which will be held today in Potter Auditorium. The cast is headed by Busby, Davison, Brown, Donelly and company. "Jedge" Jeffery will preside...
...Army, for obvious reasons, did not tell just how far its interest in the helicopter went. But Igor Sikorsky knew, and what he knew seemed to satisfy him. He had seen an airman's dream come true: the helicopter* (which irreverent Sikorsky disciples, in mock-Russian accent, call the helicopéter) could now do more than take off straight up in the air, land straight down and hover motionless. It could also carry a respectable load (two passengers), enough gasoline to make cross-country flights...