Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After taking one look at Australia's Stanley Melbourne Bruce virtually all Canadian reporters called him "the handsomest man at the Conference." Said the Ottawa Citizen: "He is tall, fine featured, immaculately groomed; one who must be tempted at times to gaze into the full-sized mirror and encounter the grandiose vision of himself...
...cheerful stopover. Before leaving Munich he bought a Bavarian outfit? leather breeches, laced at the knees, white stockings, green suspenders embroidered with a stag and edelweiss, a Jager hat with a tuft of chamois hair. Stealthily accoutring himself in his hotel room Author Hergesheimer admired himself before his mirror for some time, then changed to dinner clothes, went to the bar and drank two double Martinis. He would have drunk a third but the barkeep demurred...
Last week one of two facts was demonstrated: either Publisher Macfadden's estimate of the Manhattan mob mind was unprofitably low; or the gumchewer field had already been pre-empted by the other tabloids, the Mirror and the thumpingly successful Daily News. For last week Publisher Macfadden threw his Graphic into bankruptcy...
...Three years ago Publisher Macfadden told Editor & Publisher: "It will make a few hundred thousand next year." But it never did. The only feature which ever gave promise of building and holding circulation for the Graphic?Walter Winchell's gossip colyum?was bought away by the Mirror...
...sent Adman Swasey to be publisher of the New York American, but he was unable to show great profits for that never-prosperous paper. In 1925 he became vice president of American Weekly but could not get along with President Albert John Kobler (now publisher of the Manhattan tabloid Mirror). To settle the quarrel Publisher Hearst transferred Adman Swasey back to California, gave him the enormously lucrative representation of the American Weekly there. When Hearst asked him in 1929 to go East again to take hold of the Journal, Adman Swasey went reluctantly. During his administration the Journal made circulation...