Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lobster Than a Wise Guy. Lately Victor gave 63-year-old Billy Murray a chance at a comeback, on Bluebird records. Last week his voice, no longer a broth but a rich Irish stew, was to be heard in The Guy at the End of the Bar. Mock-boozily he caroled: Who says that his missus just gave him the air, And left with the kids and the car? Just give him a nod and he'll climb in your hair...
...neat income from Paramount Pictures, which will pay him an estimated $200,000 for making a couple of cinemas. Last week, under Paramount auspices, Benny & Co. were shipped to Manhattan for the opening of Love Thy Neighbor, in which Benny and his fellow zany Fred Allen continue the weary mock feud that Allen cooked up four years...
...shall labor all the days of my life." But most of the speech was on domestic issues, and here the old campaigner really went to town. He was sarcastic, sly, arch, tough, ironic, intimate, confidential. He ad libbed, he laughed, rolled his head sidewise, lifted his eyes in mock horror. The audience ate it up. Newsman Ted Alford, of the anti-Roosevelt Kansas City Star, said: "He's all the Barrymores rolled into...
Although pacifists were opposed to the draft, only a few refused to register. A week before registration day John Swomley, of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, talked to the group on what was involved in not registering and advised that they all should sign up. A mock trial of a conscientious objector was also held in order to acquaint members of the League with the answers they should make...
...were called up for conscript service in the Red Army last week. Reason: "the threat of capitalist encirclement." Troops of the Western Military District opened their regular fall maneuvers near the frontiers of German Poland and Rumania. In the rich Ukraine the city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly...