Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happiness to Loft. Potent units in a feeble industry are Happiness Candy Stores, Inc. controlling the Mirror Candy Stores, and the stormy Loft, Inc. Last week a merger of these three companies was announced. The combined company will have 175 stores, $20,000,000 in assets, $18,000,000 a year in sales...
...years, nose-wiping Mr. Takahashi sprang from bed, dressed hastily in a rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed the nose crusader...
...nearby park they stalked a group of wet-nosed children at play. Advancing cautiously from the rear Mr. Takahashi suddenly held his mirror before the chief sniveller's startled face. The boy turned, discovered Crusader Takahashi smiling benignly over his tabard, holding out a paper handkerchief. Hypnotized, the sniveller accepted it, trumpeted dutifully...
...motion picture is primarily interested in entertaining. Its field is the drama of life. It is a mirror held up to nature. It presents the evil with the good, but goes farther than real life by showing the triumph of right over wrong. The motion picture as a medium of entertainment and in presenting the drama of life does not knowingly misrepresent American life, as your correspondent charges, any more than the newspapers in printing the news of everyday life...
...Lindbergh and wife denied pictures of their baby to New York American. Journal ("Hearst); News, Mirror. Graphic (Tabloids): described practices of such papers as "disgusting . . . contemptible ... a social drag . . . non-constructive ... a waste of time...