Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hymns before & after the weekly lecture, McDaniel's rolling bass harmonizing with Donnell's baritone. Serious, somewhat prissy Bible-Teacher Donnell permitted no antics, and caper-cutting Pupil McDaniel was a good boy in class. When the church trustees needed money, they raised it by holding humorous mock trials in which the legal chums and such pupils as square-jibbed, religious Branch Rickey, vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, debated such subjects as "To bob or not to bob" (when bobbed-hair was a grave matter); "Resolved, the hen is flightier than the Ford...
...Italian. They went 100 miles further to the more important outpost of Múrzuch, where there was both garrison and airport. When the Free French were sighted, all the Italians went into the post and shut the gates tight. The Free French men surrounded the post in mock siege, spent a day leisurely destroying hangars and planes. Afterwards they razed the post...
...harmonies, leap out wildly from the rest of the orchestra and then immediately subside into nothing but troubled mutterings. The famous sheep episode employs muted brasses to suggest the bleating of the sheep, and further on, open trombones play a familiar role as narrators of heroism, in this case mock-heroism...
...mock trial, complete even to the presence on the bench of three learned and very live justices, was part of the annual Ames Competition, traditional climax of three years of Law School training. Finalists were the Scott Club, represented by Richardson and McMillen, and the Sayre Club, represented by Alan S. Geismer 3L and Tillman K. Saylor...
Heatter writes his newscasts himself, broadcasts them either from his penthouse in Manhattan or his home in Freeport, L. I. He used to practice broadcasting with his son Basil ten years ago. Using a frying pan as a mike, he put on mock shows that got Basil so worked up that the boy resolved to become a radio writer. Now 22, Basil has written for We, the People, Hobby Lobby, has done radio shows for Joe E. Brown and Diana Barrymore. This week CBS's Columbia Workshop will produce his Cassidy and the Devil...