Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Last week in Paris Paul Roger of the Pathe group was planning the synchronization of Valentino's Blood and Sand, as a test for making dead stars talk, with a Valentino mimic capable of gauging and timing the dialog accurately...
...Hoover reviews Greatest Naval Pageant in History of Nation" headlines the Metropolitan Press. For more than three hours, according to the news dispatch which adds color to the banner across the front page, the massed naval strength of the United States "played games of mimic warfare" with Commander-in-Chief Herbert Hoover as an interested spectator...
...fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships for a little boy-god named Mars...
...when it is popular to decry the increasing tendency of American colleges to mimic English universities in their academic environment, it is interesting to see the Yale Daily News outline a plan for undergraduate study which almost duplicates that which has obtained for so long a time at Oxford...
...mimic maneuvers were to bomb the financial district, clean out a defense post at Columbus Circle, strafe the Hotel St. Regis as a theoretical centre of resistance (Navy umpires atop the hotel scored the attack). Formations were temporarily broken as the attackers engaged in imaginary cat-&-dog fights high over the city's craning millions. Proudest witness of the spectacle was David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aeronautics, the Navy's prime War ace, whose earnest purpose it is to impress citizens with the necessity for, and perfection of, the Navy...