Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
...London theatrical parties last week Sir Laurence Olivier fluttered his hand in mock turtle despair. "Sacked, old boy, sacked," he said. "Left without...
...judge the Corcoran Gallery of Art's annual show of local artists, decided to apply strict professional standards to what is largely an amateur event. They found only 18 paintings worth hanging on the wall. That left more than 1,000 entries (painters of every school, from mock-Picassos to mock-realists) out in the cold. To comfort the rejected artists, the Corcoran hung their pictures in another part of the gallery...
...Tones of Authority. On the surface, it was a lazy week, and the 30-odd newsmen assigned to the President sat around fidgeting over the lack of any spot news. In what was intended as a broad hint of their impatience, they staged a mock welcome for Press Secretary Charles Ross and Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter...
Those two clubs, each of eight members, are the survivors of a seven-term competition under the legal rules of "the Commonwealth of Ames," a theoretical state set up by the Law School to provide a uniform body of Law for purposes of mock trials and debates...