Word: mocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bellairs and his colleagues on the police beat used to accost farmers bringing produce to the city, demand a license for each separate vegetable, give the frightened farmers mock trials in the press room at headquarters, fine them, buy whiskey with the booty...
...Paul Joseph Goebbels, interrupted his direction of Libya's war preparations last week to pay a visit to neighboring Egypt. In interviews with the press and King Farouk the bearded Marshal professed friendly sentiments for Egypt, but just to be on the safe side Cairo planned a mock air-raid and black-out after he had gone...
...Army and Navy went ahead with plans for a mock "attack" on the Atlantic seaboard by a large "raiding fleet," to be repelled by planes and submarines...
...take place forthwith, and so Billy's neck was forcibly put on the block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most realistically to this mock execution, and it telegraphed the rest of his body that he was "done...
...Thomas Wolfe's posthumous novel, The Web and the Rock, Next month's Scribner's will carry a 15,000-word Wolfe novelette, The Party at Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled in an automobile going 60 m.p.h. Current issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review...