Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S prime function is to hold the mirror up to nature. TIME recognizes only one higher duty-to satisfy its subscribers...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
...HAUNTED MIRROR - Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). Of the South that William Faulkner writes about, it has been said that no one else has ever seen it. The same comment could be made on Authoress Roberts' Kentucky. Her Kentuckians, their ways of speaking and their goings-on, are as much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers...
FAMILY HISTORY-V. Sackville-West- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) Aging ladies who pored over All Passion Spent as if it were a mirror will not find quite the same fascination in Family History. When her latest narrative goes so far as to make skeptical faces at Eton and at Eton's God, conservative readers will have to take comfort in remembering that Victoria Sackville-West's family have lived in 365-room Knole Castle since Queen Elizabeth's days that she is so aristocratic she can safely be allowed a certain latitude in criticizing home truths...
...summoned to the War Department. He found Secretary Hurley, white-faced, "in a towering rage," pacing up and down his office. Said the Secretary: "This is a terrible thing you have done, Drew. You are trying to ruin my career. . . . Damnable lies. . . . You wrote that I posture before a mirror. Look around my office. There isn't a mirror in it.* You wrote that I used airplanes at Government expense to make political speeches and that I had smashed up a $70,000 plane. I'm going to put you in your place. I'm going to get your...