Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew it was all right as soon as Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff took him in to meet Joseph Stalin, in whose face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...
...promptly received the warm sympathy of the leader of Mexico's Federation of Labor, Guillermo Blauncarte, and of Arthur Brisbane's Daily Mirror which printed a strong editorial on "the saddest profession." Claiming a membership of 400 at its organization, the S. D. M. threatened boycott, blacklisting and picketing of all prostitutes who did not join by June 1. Though members of all Mexican unions must abide by an eight-hour working day, Mexican newshawks discovered that President Gonzalez was back at work last week, operating her "ship" twelve hours...
...canvas-backed armchair in front of my table. On it I put an alarm clock, my shaving-mirror, a pencil, a memorandum pad, a glass of water and a teaspoonful of the powder. I slipped into the chair, faced the mirror, poured the powder into the water-drank it, looked at the clock, took the pencil and wrote on the pad: 'Took powder one minute past two o'clock.' Then I leaned back and waited for things to happen...
...Excepting Hearst's American and Mirror, no Manhattan newspaper touched the story, which it would have been obliged to reprint from the Journal day by day without sound knowledge of the story's source or its outcome. One editor explained: ''Following the Journal on a story like that is like following a good-looking streetwalker along Fifth Avenue at noon on Easter Sunday...
Each compartment has its own radio, mirror, table, washstand with hot & cold running water. At the rear of the coach is a men's lavatory and women's lounge with lavatory, dressing table, mirror, settee. Passengers prepare for bed in perfect privacy, standing up. On duty at all times is a porter. The powerplant, a 6-cyl. Hall-Scott, is at the rear as in most modern buses, is operated by the driver with the aid of compressed-air power-boosters...