Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecherous, coupon-clipping U.S. edition of Colonel Blimp ("I'll tell you what I'd do if I were General Eisenhower. I'd do exactly what General Lee would have done if he'd been General Eisenhower!"); the nubile, doe-eyed golddigger who is mock-terrified in the clinches ("But where is all this leading us to, Mr. Hartman-Miami? Palm Beach? Hollywood?"); and the gimlet-eyed old biddy who adores baseball players ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams...
...night classes in public speaking and parliamentary procedure, labor ethics and law, in economics and trade union methods. Xavier's volunteer faculty (three lawyers, ten union officers, two businessmen and the two priests) translates its subjects into down-to-earth problems. Students study contracts, sample constitutions, hold mock conventions and negotiation meetings. Sometimes, actual union problems come before their "grievance clinics," with representatives of management on hand to talk things over with the union...
Under the "model assembly" program the Harvard council combines with other colleges to form mock U.N. assemblies and debate current U.N. topics. Depending on its size, each college provides enough delegates for three to 13 "countries...
King's Men. Making a show of resistance, Shakes then allowed himself to be dragged by his sponsors toward the Speaker's chair. That was all part of the act. The mock reluctance dates from the days when the Speaker, as mouthpiece of the House, had to bear unpleasant tidings to the King (between 1399 and 1535, seven Speakers were beheaded...
Both appealed. The case will be heard before the mock court of Judge Calvert Magruder '16, Chief Justice of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Talcott M. Banks '31, and John C. Cabot Jr., members of the Boston...