Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adaptation of a Bavarian chalet. Slight, wiry, sandy-haired, he plays atrocious golf, drives his car like the coal man. Before their marriage his attractive wife was Julia Harpman, star crime reporter on the New York Daily News. His father, Arthur Pegler, is still the New York Daily Mirror's ablest rewrite...
...Publisher Alfred John Kobler of the Hearst tabloid Mirror made a fortune as president of Hearst's rich American Weekly. The Mirror, long a money-loser, is supposed...
...when to play a ball and when to let it go out. His serve, almost as severe as Vines's, is equally dependable. With slower ground strokes than most first-rate U. S. tennists, and less style than most Englishmen, who play as though the net were a mirror, Crawford has an energetic steadiness that depresses his opponents, a tireless ability to play his positive, muscular shots, not for aces but for errors. The most unusual thing about Crawford on a tennis court is his flat-topped, thick-framed 14-oz. racquet, shaped like the racquets that were fashionable...
Into the Hollywood Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell...
...hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...