Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of the three stories of this book, a man softly enters the bedroom of a young girl about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene is a good metaphor for the practice of sombre Psychologist Wassermann...
...home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
...seen as secured to the greatest number. But there is one privilege, always reserved for the tyrannous overlords of previous civilizations, which modern Democracy unquestionably confers upon the masses. It is the privilege of Decadence. Last week the Hearstian tabloid sheetlet, the New York Daily Mirror, outdid even its pandering tabloid rivals, the Daily News and Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's Graphic, in the nice art of tickling the palate of Demos. A week before, a hosiery company had conducted an ankle contest among chorus girls, and the Mirror hit upon the idea of a competition between other parts...
Publisher Hearst's descent from the newspaper to the tabloid, from pardonable news-sensation to illiteracy, occurred in 1924 when he established the Mirror to compete with the Patterson-McCormick Daily News...
...blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced nervously at the back of a court bouquet. Therein had been embedded against ultimate emergencies a tiny mirror. The curtsying began...