Word: mocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...F.L.N. itself. The French were prepared to provide guns and money for the unit, which would appear to be loyal to the F.L.N. by day, but would actually fight the F.L.N. by night. For nearly a year Krim and some of his subordinates strung the French along, fought ferocious mock battles amongst themselves at night, and to provide casualties, left the imaginary battlefields strewn with what Krim describes as executed "traitors" dressed in F.L.N. uniforms. Finally, in October 1956, Krim put an end to the comedy, turned 450 "pro-French" troops against the very French army posts that had supplied...
...ripe for an up-to-date compendium of all knowledge. The Britannica's founders were Colin Macfarquhar, a small-business man of Edinburgh, and Andrew Bell, an engraver of dog collars, who stood 4½ ft. tall, and had a nose so embarrassingly big that he used to mock his mockers with an even larger one of papier-mache. Smellie, their 28-year-old choice for editor, spieled long Latin poems when drunk, and was celebrated as "a veteran in wit, genius and bawdry...
...Humorless Cry-Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...
Through time, Class Day ceremonies changed only slightly. Singing by the Glee Club, a popular event during the early part of the century, was abandoned during the twenties. Sometimes the 25th Reunion Class would present mock degrees, but there was no hard and fast rule about this. Of course, there was always the Ivy Oration and the presentation of the class banner to the freshman class by graduating seniors...
...sophisticated directness. Edward Zang as the poet, is also outstanding in extracting the most out of probably the best lines in the play. Richard Galvin brings a well-trained talent to the part of the inhibited young gentleman and Roz Faber and Mary Weede give appropriate spirit and mock innocence to their roles...