Word: mock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eager, though he has failed to tell his story in terms of the theatre, presents it engagingly. No one can deny him the plausibility of his basic situation, or the ingratiating quality of his central characters. Despite a facile ability to mock, to gain an honest laugh with the neatly arranged summations of an individualized and quixotically observing eye, he argues forthrightly, within the limitations of his immaturity, both sides of his theme...
...national guard units. Each year one of these armies was to be assembled for maneuvers. Last week the first of these annual maneuvers opened at Pine Camp, near Watertown, N. Y., where five divisions of the First Army under Major General Dennis E. Nolan assembled for training and mock battle...
...convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind them she carries off with success. This is best gauged by the way audiences wriggle while watching an episode like the one in which, caught by her admirer running up the steps of a business school where she contemplates taking a course, Alice...
...Crow never whipped their children, punished them by holding them down and pouring water up their noses. Little Crow boys played at being warriors and hunters, shot at targets, went on mock hunts of pet buffalo calves. One of their games was to throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice...
...whatever instructions Reich authorities may issue "for protection against air attack." In practice this means that foreigners must now rush about with Germans, donning gas masks, popping into cellars, and having their homes rummaged by Nazi inspectors whenever Air Minister General Hermann Wilhelm Goring orders one of his realistic mock air raids...