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When he finally got around to putting the orchestra through Falstaff early last week, he found the orchestral parts full of wrong notes. Stopping the music, he would summon flutists and violists to the podium, hold the offending scores up to his nose so he could read them, then mock the publisher ("Viva la casa Ricordi...
...entreaty to win the nine-seat Liberal bloc to the Tory side. "He has been a very ardent lover of this elderly spinster, the Liberal Party," he said, and the House tittered. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 47-year-old Liberal spinster, blushed and laughed with embarrassment. Other M.P.s, with mock gallantry, cried: "Withdraw!" But Attlee went right on. "I can never make out," he said, "whether the Right Honorable Member for Woodford [Churchill's constituency] is going to play Petruchio or Romeo. He gives her a slap in the face, then offers her a bunch of flowers...
Brazilian Communists tried to make it as warm as possible for the visiting diplomats. They staged mock funerals for Kennan and burned an American flag...
...grant that we men shall always have to mock our women in a mild way to assuage our feelings of inferiority over our far less significant role in nature. But when this mockery threatens the rights of the individual because of sex, it has gone...
...score the first basket, the gallery buzzed. No one had forgotten what happened the first time the Trotters played the Lakers last year. After rolling up a comfortable lead over the Lakers, the Globetrotters had nonchalantly started playing for laughs-passing between their legs, setting up a mock pitcher-catcher act, spinning the ball on their fingertips. A newsreel cameraman had recorded the whole humiliating burlesque and Minneapolis never lived it down. Mikan & Co. wiped out part of the humiliation by beating them later in the season, but the Trotters still led the series, 2 games...