Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, denials of nightclubbing, then of dice; Millikin displayed mock horror at such unworldliness. "Soon," he said, "the Senator will disclaim any knowledge or interest in many activities in which many people engage, and he will then stand in an exalted sort of position and we will all have to act like disciples of Father Divine." Millikin made a tiny bow at Douglas. "Good Father, please spare us from that...
...observers agree that this Congress will cut excise taxes a billion dollars, and that the Administration will accept the cut, despite its official disapproval. Also, there is a powerful move afoot to increase personal exemptions. All year long Internal Revenue offices receive jubilant announcements of births, some printed on mock income-tax forms. In Newark, N.J. last week, an attractive mother of four finished checking the family tax form with a revenue agent, then asked and was told how much less she would have to pay if she had one more dependent. Mused mother: "I was just wondering whether...
...British Consulate General of Boston told the U.N Council's mock General assembly in Hunt Hall last night that Mao Tse Tung's communist regime is the actual government of China, and as such deserves admission...
...Eisenhower in 1952 implied to McCarthy's followers an end of what Joe now calls "20 years of treason." But his continued attacks on the State Department, on the Information Service and, above all, on the Army and Bob Stevens, a thorough Republican, give Democrats a chance to mock: "One more year of treason...
...idea of three condemned men who are better than most of their unimprisoned associate and who arrange fate according to an optimum standard of justice is amusing at least for a time. It provides the convicts with an opportunity to invent a variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...