Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe the role of the Marschallin is considered to be Lehmann's greatest. Last week was the first time she has sung it in the U. S. Critics could find no flaw. Few will forget her as she sat before her mirror, sadly realizing that youth, for her, was gone...
...What They Are Saying" is the Mirror's contest, copied by permission from London Tit-Bits. A set of four action photographs is printed every day for 28 days. Object: to guess which of 48 suggested "sayings" best fits each picture. All readers of this gumchewers' sheetlet who can decipher English are expected to get the first two weeks' examples perfectly. Hence, the tabulating company retained by the Mirror does not even examine the entries until the final, difficult ones have been received. Then the tabulators begin searching for highest scores among the last returns, which narrow...
...Mirror's first prize is $5,000. Second prize, valued at $4,000, must be taken in the form of a bungalow at Lake Parsippany, N. J. The 500 lesser prizes likewise are in merchandise. Each puzzler is obliged to buy a 10? "color print of a popular movie star" with each week's answers. Estimated revenue: $35,000, which will just about cover the cost of the contest, exclusive of prizes...
...first three weeks the Mirror contest bagged 85,000 new readers...
...require readers to buy anything. Half-apologetically it confined the puzzle to small space, did little crowing about its $15,000 prizes. No stranger to contests before it became supreme in circulation in the U. S., the News seemed embarrassed by the necessity of brawling with the vulgar Mirror...