Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the Senator's address, the Republicans will hear a wire recording of the third ballot of the HYRC mock convention which last week nominated Arthur H. Vandenberg for the Presidency...
Students' Choice. He drew overflow audiences at Dayton and Hamilton, was vociferously cheered by 3,500 Miami University students who had just held a mock convention, in which he was nominated for President. By week's end he had made Taft's campaign seem dull and almost apathetic...
...present most of HYRC's work is internal--only its mock convention Thursday parallels the activity of other groups. Rusher is saving his strength for the big push next fall, when the full force of the club will be brought to bear on local and national elections...
Plans for tomorrow's mock Republican convention forged ahead yesterday when the keynote speaker was announced as GOP Congressman Claude I. Bakewell of Missouri...
...entirely. In mock despair she frankly told friends that her children were dolts, once complimented Anne with: "That's right, lovey-dove, you seem a shade less stupid than your sisters." Stupid or not, they all wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine...