Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czermanski (pronounced "Zhishlaff Chairmanski"), a handsome, extremely self-possessed young man, was born in Lwow (pronounced "Wuff"), Poland, 35 years ago. His father & mother were mummers, but small Zdzislaw was only mildly interested in the theatre. He used to practice drawing caricatures by making faces at himself in a mirror. He learned much more about the human face by working for a time as a barber. During the War he enlisted in crop-headed Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's French-subsidized Polish Legion, was wounded, mentioned in despatches, thrice taken prisoner. In 1919 he gained his first fame...
Moonbeams entered the festivities that night. A mirror on the 64th floor and a photoelectric cell were employed to carry Mr. Doherty's voice by moonbeam power to a microphone while he spoke over a nationwide radio hookup, greeting the members of Doherty's Men's Fraternity (employes). More moonbeams were used to close a switch turning on the building's floodlights...
...Mirror to the Fight Feelings run hard in the soft drink industry where brand-names and goodwill mean much. On every can of Pepsi-Cola is the following label...
...being sold deliberately as a substitute for Coca-Cola. When Coca-Cola Co. saw the label it scouted about, wrote Pepsi-Cola Co. last month that "your product ... has been and is now being substituted and passed off for Coca-Cola ... at ten Loft, six Happiness and seven Mirror stores. . . . This detection . . . entitles us to the reward . . . and we herewith . . . make demand upon you for the payment...
Last fortnight Loft and Pepsi-Cola answered with $7,000,000 worth of damage suits, charging Coca-Cola has maliciously attempted to break Pepsi-Cola's contracts, to hurt Loft's business (TIME, May 16). Last week the Mirror stores (operated by Loft) joined the fray and brought suits for $1,250,000 in damages. A million dollars was asked for general interference with the Loft-Mirror-Pepsi-Cola contracts, charging that Coca-Colans had bribed Mirror employes, had attacked Mirror's stock, had interfered with customers, had stolen goods. The second suit for $250,000 was because of Coca...