Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominates and imbues this ambitiously conceived publication with an atavistic tendency parallel in some respects to practically nothing. Al Capp (and in many instances he must be considered the anti-Capp) prepares the reader for subsequent perusal by an explanatory letter in which he combines the fanciful and the mock satirical to introduce the two authors, Larry Levine and Phil Costello, both of whom are Harvard...
...mock hydrogen bomb raid will be held in 50 American cities on June 15, Radcliffe Commencement day, and will extend through the morning of June 16, when Harvard exercises are scheduled...
Mugging, singing, dancing, and dialogue blend most charmingly when Richard Smithies and William Bridges as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle give Alice a demonstration of the Lobster Quadrille and describe their childhood in the school under the sea. Next in order of charm is the scene between Alice and Humpty-Dumpty, played by Colgate Salisbury...
...puppy's head kept its own personality. Though handicapped by having almost no body of its own, it was as playful as any other puppy. It growled and snarled with mock fierceness or licked the hand that caressed it. The host-dog was bored by all this, but soon became reconciled to the unaccountable puppy that had sprouted out of its neck. When it got thirsty, the puppy got thirsty and lapped milk eagerly. When the laboratory grew hot, both host-dog and puppy put out their tongues and panted to cool off. After six days of life together...
...emotional life: to exhibit naked feeling appeared as a breach of etiquette." Mild-mannered Cyclopedist Blom, 66, also sharpened up his donnish ax on the Queen's English and "made war" on certain usages that irked him. Among the casualties: GLISSANDO, which Blom calls a "mock-turtle with a French head and an Italian tail . . . unfortunately used by composers anywhere but in Italy," and TONE (used for "note" in twelve-tone music), which "has been accepted in America," says Grove V severely, "but must not be allowed to impose itself on the English language." Grove V "aims at being...