Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proceedings will be televised in the same hall where the Law School put on the mock trial for "Omnibus" last week...
While the camera moved past Finley and Beer too quickly, it slackened tediously at the business school for a case discussion of why a female shoe maker was fired. The stop at the law school for a mock trial was more interesting and, with the aid of intelligent narration, gave a better insight into learning at the post-graduate level...
...started in a Hollis Hall room on Dec. 13, 1844, when several members of the Hasty Pudding Club put on a "tragiccomic burlesque opera" entitled "Bombastes Furioso". Up until this time, Pudding personnel had limited their dramatic productions to mock trials such as "Dido vs. Aeneas: For Breach of Promise...
...courage and warmth of the suffragette. She received solid support from Malcolm Ticknor as Jo the Loiterer. The possessor of a considerable comic talent, Ticknor also displayed a strong tenor voice. The biggest voice in the cast, however, belonged to Herbert Gibson, who played Daniel Webster with a wonderful mock dignity. In smaller parts, John Morabito gave an amusing portrayal of the love-sick but proper John Adams, while Sylvia Skolnick enlivened the role of a militant feminist, Jenny Reefer. The cause of suffrage received lusty support from Judy Moore as Lillian Russell...
...unprogrammed sight: the rescue in mid-air by one paratrooper of a comrade who jumped in the same stick but whose chute failed to open. Popeyed, rice farmers saw field guns and trucks larger than their houses drop from the sky. U.S. marines, landing from 30 helicopters, fought a mock battle against "enemy" strongpoints with flamethrowers and satchel charges...