Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lytell, as the hero's parents, are adequate in poorly-constructed roles, as are other less-important actors, Unfortunately for the audience, however, the author decided to-include in his piece several juveniles of the most objectionable variety. Tortuous as it is to sit through lengthy minutes of childish mock battles and other entertaining sports, it becomes living death by comparison to endure more than two hours of little boys and girls wandering around an obviously rural setting and talking in the most Brooklyn possible of accents...
...everlasting credit of Messrs. Walker and Warnick, they stack up pretty well against the efforts of their better-established competitors. The very best number is a new one, sung to utter perfection by Robinson, "Growing Pains"; and the authors also hit the top with a mock-serious ditty called "Love or Reason...
...great Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Frog-Footman, and Alice herself brought good prices on the auction block. A drawing of Alice at the moment her neck started to lengthen ("Curiouser and curiouser!") went for $475, top figure for the series; Alice and the Gryphon (see cut), $220; the whole block of Tenniel originals...
...line, were patently annoyed at the "safe-conduct" passes dropped by Allied planes on German positions, which as a rule promise the bearer unmolested passage through the lines and decent treatment in captivity. Recently the night-flying Luftwaffe has been dropping on Allied positions the German retort, a mock pass which reads...
...fell to the brilliant Preston Sturges (Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero}. As Author-Director Sturges finished it, it was a sharp and memorable refutation of the assumption that Sturges is incapable of ever flatly committing himself about anything. It opened with a leisurely, mock-pastoral shot of a weedy grave marked "W.T.G. Morton, Born 1819, Died 1868," and with a clear pleasant voice which addressed the audience as follows...