Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy with her pleasant work, her sophisticated friends, her artful practice of dodging disagreeable situations. Lovely to look at, light and gracious. Lily "told no anecdotes about admirers, or humorous scrapes in which she herself appeared as a figure of good entertainment value; she did not take out her mirror and gaze, spellbound, at her own reflection; there was nothing consciously graceful about any of her gestures." This paragon of modern virtue fell in love with Lionel...
...offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
Thus last week Walter Howey tossed aside the news that he had been called in to doctor the New York Mirror, sick Hearst tabloid. There was a polite little announcement by General Director Arthur Brisbane, who dug down in his bag of trick titles, pulled one out marked "news adviser" for Walter Howey. But what Director Brisbane did not say about "News Adviser" Howey would fill a bang-up book, had already tilled a feverish play, The Front Page. For Walter Howey is the man Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns...
...recent years Editor Howey helped start the New York Mirror (TIME, Nov. 26), put the tabloid Boston Record firmly on its feet, upping circulation from 197,000 to 320,000, made a great deal of money in the stockmarket, took charge of Hearst's International News Photo Service. In the picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories...
...doctor to the Mirror, Walter Howey succeeds able Stanley Walker, whom Hearst hired away from the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune at a fancy price (TIME, Jan. 21). Hamstrung by the unfathomable Hearst way of doing things, Managing Editor Walker accomplished nothing, last week found himself transferred to the New York American. Meanwhile the Mirror remained the fourth largest newspaper in the land (circ. 560,000) and about the least respected...