Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Drood was murdered by Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium...
...this point, for no sensible reason, a flapper bride (Heidi Vosseller) comes on wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...
...Hitler, present in spirit if not in body at the Lowell House Common Room last night, was found guilty of two crimes against humanity and acquitted of two others by a "bench" of five educators on evidence and arguments presented by members of the Harvard Debating Council at their mock trial last night...
...first intra-Council debate will be the mock trial of Adolph Hitler on October...
...Hitler, on the charge of crimes against humanity, centering around the events of June 30th, will be either a great success or a dismal failure, depending on the sincerity of presentation. The evidence must, so far as is possible, be based on facts; emotional appeals will accomplish little. A mock trial of Hitlerism was staged last spring before a rabidly prejudiced audience in Madison Square Garden, but proved nothing because there was no defense. From all reports, the Debating Council is making every effort to have its trial both real and judicious. If the Council makes the most...