Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Face Red? (RKO) takes a somewhat less complaisant view of colyumists. Its hero (Ricardo Cortez) is an impudent, conceited hack, perpetually touching pitch. "I am a mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot...
...each of the outboard motors of a tri-motor plane is mounted a convex mirror permitting the pilot to see the whirling propeller of the centre engine, through the blades of the outboard propeller. If the centre "prop" seems to rotate in one direction or the other, the pilot knows that it is whirling faster or slower than the outboard. He manipulates his throttles until the centre "prop" seems to stand stockstill. When both outboards have been tuned with the centre, the "waah-waah" ceases...
Hirohito was not crowned. Instead, upon his father's death in 1926 he assumed protection of Japan's three Sacred Treasures: The Sword which commands "Be Brave!" The Jewel which says "Enlighten thyself!" and the Most Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Omikami which enjoins "Know thyself...
...fleets. After the War he studied at Oxford, was graduated with honors in modern history in 1921. Since 1926 he has been the London Times's dramatic critic. Married to Authoress Hilda Vaughan he dedicates The Fountain to her. Other books: My Name is Legion, Portrait in a Mirror...
Happiness, Too. Last week Happiness ("In Every Box") Candy Stores joined Loft, Inc., The Mirror and Pepsi-Cola Co. in their fight against Coca-Cola Co. Happiness sought $2,250,000 in damages, bringing the total of the actions to $11,750,000. Allegations were the same ones of libel and "malicious interference" with the Pepsi-Cola contracts (TiME...