Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moore served during the 1952 Presidential campaign as college director of the Young Republican National Federation. In this position he was responsible for mock conventions in several colleges. Moore is at present vice-chairman of the same group...
...razor from him) and a cheerful account of life in a Communist jail. "The Communists went out of their way to treat me good," he said. His friends quipped that the Reds let him go because they couldn't feed him, and composed affectionate doggerel about the mock-heroic legend...
...force. His best news: several hundred paratroop reinforcements. His biggest problem: hundreds of wounded men, who cannot be evacuated due to Communist interdiction of the airstrip; some of them have died for lack of special medical care. All week, too, the colonel could hear Red loudspeakers mock him: "You'll never get your general's stars." Despite President Eisenhower's suggestion, the French government decided that it would not promote him until the battle's result...
...winning club was represented in last night's mock appeal by third-year law students John A. Mitchell and Archibald C. Spencer '51. John W. Dickey and L. LeMoyne Ellicott argued for the Story Club, which the Gardner Club defeated in the finals...
...Hope of Walt Whitman. The idea of chronicling Sadakichi's wayward life and times began as a club gag. But Fowler took it seriously, and raked together the few known facts about this eccentric's eccentric. When he was not with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call...