Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SMITH EVERLASTING - Dillwyn Parrish - Harper ($2). Pippa did not prevaricate; all's well with the world. Here is a story which begins and ends on that vast plain inhabited by the innumerable Smiths that you see in the telephone book, the Chevrolets, the shaving mirror-the moderately comfortable, easygoing, unawakened small-bore men and their fussing, darning, worrying, loving wives. Martin and Emelie Smith are as concerned over the whereabouts of a pet pipe, moths in the clothes trunk, the working of the front door latch, the "niceness" of a family party (the only kind they ever achieve...
...Hence, perhaps, the freshness and simplicity of his writing. He never seeks to impress his audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse and so keenly felt that there is no need for literary dramatizing. It is enough to be nature's mirror. The first of these essays describes the first visit of man to the Three Arch Rocks off the coast of Oregon, a surf-guarded, craggy home of seals and sea-lions, of murres, puffins, petrels and other seafowl in clamorous clouds. There is a chapter on extinct and vanishing species...
...Potent offspring of the Chicago Tribune in the realm of Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlets. Bernarr does not even mention Mr. Hearst's Daily Mirror (also pornographic) in his roster of morning papers- the apparent implication being that such a sheet is beneath the intellect of Evening Graphic readers...
...there died Senator Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, able blatherskite, onetime running mate of Presidential runner-up William Jennings Bryan. Georgia Democrats elected as his successor one Walter Franklin George. Soon thereafter Washington correspondents, led by Clinton W. ("Mirror") Gilbert and Mark Sullivan, cheered loudly for Senator George. At 44, he was a distinguished lawyer, brilliant orator, a rather impressive figure on the Senate floor. He was no bombaster of the Tom Heflin school, no ranting humorist of the Pat Harrison species. His popularity grew; people began to say that the South was having a political renaissance, that soon...
...would have "played" the streetcar strike to sell their papers, or simply viewed it in irritated detachment with no thought but that every one concerned must "stew in his own juice." The editors of the New York Times and Herald-Tribune and World and Journal and Daily News and Mirror and Post did not march anywhere when Manhattan was suffering a July subway strike. But in the South they have not such formal ideas about who is entitled to do what. In the South minor absurdities are soon laughed, or ejaculated, out of existence. And then, Editor Marshall Ballard...