Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectators were cheering him wildly. Exhilarated, Godoy put on a performance as bizarre as any thing ever seen in a first-class prize ring. Deliberately tormenting Louis, he jumped up & down like a boy playing squat tag, grimaced & grinned and finally, after doing a few mock rumba steps, threw his arms around the champion and kissed him on both cheeks. A few moments later, when Louis was awarded the decision, Godoy hugged him again & again...
...forbidding the raising of pigeons in order to insure that householders' wells will not be contaminated by droppings. Cambridge isn't the only town with ridiculous, unenforceable laws. But that isn't much of an excuse for deliberately writing such laws into the books. To do so means to mock the whole system of rule by law. Perhaps Mickey knew that his little brain-child was a bastard, that it would be duly declared unconstitutional after blocking up the proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced. As a matter of fact, he didn...