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Stolen Show. The cruisers, destroyers and big submarines V-1 and V-2 (which had saluted by diving when abreast of the reviewing ship) all sped to the southeastern horizon, the dreadnaughts turning eastward into battle line, to prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors...
...voluntary and not prosecuted by force; 3) Threatened punishment for zealots who broke these rules. But in face of these symptoms of new leniency on the part of Soviet authorities, plans were being made by the Society of Militant Atheists (alleged membership: 3,000,000) to make great mock of religion at Eastertime with bonfires of ikons, satiric drama, lectures, processions, the construction of planetariums to express the materialistic conception of the world...
...Donald Anderson Laird, 32-year-old director of this Baptist University's psychological laboratory, kept eight students up all night. They studied, played games, held a mock session of the U. S. Senate. Their reactions were studied and charted the following morning...
...hearings that the Drys had ever given the Wets in the House since Prohibition. Heretofore Wet legislation has been smothered under parliamentary silence. What caused the change this time was the threat of the Wets to set up an unofficial committee of their own in the capitol and hold mock hearings on Prohibition changes. To prevent such an undignified procedure the Drys consented to official hearings before the Judiciary Committee...
Bobby Clark, with his spectacles painted on his face, his trick cane and cigar, amuses those who think that the mock-pompous delivery of big words is funny. He reaches another sense of humor by announcing, before playing the piccolo: "There are only a few of us left." His partner, as usual, is the almost completely silent Paul McCullough, who is impelled by Mr. Clark's incessant talk to bury his head in a desk drawer ("Just getting a breath of fresh air"). These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer...