Word: mocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese war poems are naturally written in the stilted, mock-heroic style of the Japanese classical tradition. No hints of hardship, weariness, homesickness creep...
...planned a scene where Donald emerges from a snowbank with icicles sticking on his head like horns. His three little nephews mock his appearance by making the "horns" gesture...
...successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch...
...Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down to the attack just as the Air Secretary and his official party were making their inspection. A touch of grim realism was added to the mock war as seven planes crashed, six fliers were killed...
...quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia in the form of projectiles, on his doctor's orders lay on his stomach each day for an hour after lunch. To keep him company, all his male guests lay on their stomachs...