Word: mocking
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Former President Harry S. Truman will be the principal speaker at a mock national Democratic convention to be sponsored next spring, from April 29 to May 1, by the Harvard Young Democrats Club. Student representatives will be sent from every state, Gary M. Little '61, the Club's vice-president, said last night...
...Mock nominations for presidential and vice-presidential candidates will open the three-day meeting. Representatives will "create a platform" for the national party on the second day, according to Little; on the third, the New England Young Democrats Clubs will hold their annual meeting...
Every major democratic candidate in the coming presidential election has expressed hope of addressing the HYDC between now and the mock convention, Little added. As a result, he noted, the HYDC should be "well qualified" to make a choice between the leading candidates...
Although the "Mock Republican Convention" sponsored by the Law School Forum at Lowell Lecture Hall last night left Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller still even in their race for the G.O.P. nomination, speakers Al Capp and Walt Kelly established one thing, at least. The opposition candidate, "from the American political gutter," should be Harold E. Stassen they agreed; "if Harold can do it in blackface, he might make...
...Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts." Other versions had Hugh enticed...