Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bibs & Bibs" is "always good for a laugh." "Buzzin' The Bee" is another one in which the straight man persuades the two comedians to pretend they are bees. To ensure their silence each is given a mouthful of water. This "bit" terminates with one comedian getting a face full of water...
...long as the government sponsors blind complacency with the national attitude in past wars, it can hardly pretend to be a champion of world peace. The overpowering appeal of the sound of trumpets and the march of soldiers cannot help making men readier to fight future wars on small provocation. If "peace-loving" statesmen cannot devise effective means for maintaining permanent peace, the least that can be expected is that they should not make efforts to rekindle the appeal of militarism...
These faults prevent the publication of books other than those printed at the expense of the University. Many of these have such a limited market that no commercial house will take them, the University Press can hardly pretend to fulfill its initial purpose. As long as the Press is complacently content to play a minor role it may do so; but its possibilities are so great, it is to be regretted that they have not yet been realized...
...with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend he is a gnome. But as gnomes are known to milk other people's cows, the two of them must milk cows too. Unfortunately the cows in this part of the country are buffaloes; unfortunately the buffaloes will not rise to be milked. But for the first time...
There is on display at the Colonial Theatre an uneven morality play, write and enacted by George Bernard Shaw, and staged through the cooperation of the Theatre Guild and its actors. No longer does the old man of the English stage pretend to be a dramatist; his characters, from bacillus to the "sententious anchorite," are but the assorted speaking trumpets through which G. B. S. is announcing to the world his opinions on the war, the League of Nations, the excellencies of a vegetarian diet, Einstein, France and her "security," and H. G. Wells...