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Word: mocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain she can still have the mathematician, but he and the Satyrs mock her vocal advances. "Love is a sickness full of woe," they all agree, and the chorus, with upturned noses, murmurs, "We told...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Charivari | 5/15/1953 | See Source »

...quite a match for two splendid masterpieces of historical fiction recently produced by other Englishwomen: The Golden Hand, by Edith Simon, and The Man On A Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Yet it has the charm of a hearty good story, and if the style is mildly mock-archaic, it is pretty good in its pretense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mildly Mock-Archaic | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...author of India's Peace Plan later spoke before a mock U.N. Council session of the United Nations. He is Nehru's chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: India Peace Plan Author Approves Korean Talk Pace | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Council members will play host to more than 125 delegates from 25 New England colleges as registration for the Council's annual mock United Nations sessions opens tonight in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Delegates Menon, Azkoul To Address Mock Assembly Of 25 New England Colleges | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

...though great in number, dances with grace and precision. The six or seven minutes of Ulanova are outstandingly beautiful. But on the whole, the cameraman had difficultly in cropping action and maintaining dramatic pitch through the transitions. Especially disturbing are the frequent switches to the audience, who talk with mock enthusiasm about their kolkhoz anniversary. In spite of obvious propaganda, however, creative portrayals of the romantic, tsarist era are not re-tuned for soviet cars...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Grand Concert | 3/4/1953 | See Source »

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