Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven, upon his mother's second marriage, Baudelaire found himself a mystical Hamlet turned out into the harsh reality of a cruel school life. When he became of age he abandoned the ambitions of his family and became dandy living a life before a mirror with a mistress Americans would describe as a "yella girl." From then until his death the poet carried on a long and weary struggle with debt, disease, wine, opium, and impotence. Through it all he kept up his unending search for the "Ideal Beauty". His life was a duel between Catholicism and Paganism, between flesh...
Actress Jeanne Eagels, restless and intemperate, died last October in Manhattan at the Park Avenue Hospital, a private psychotherapeutic sanitarium. Last week the New York Daily Mirror revealed, for the first time, the official findings of her autopsy. An overdose of heroin killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled...
...hope of relief for great personages offered in the reply of Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, London Evening News, etc., etc. "Speaking professionally," said he, "I do not know what the newspapers would do without the Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth. There is not a newspaper in the country in which there is not a strict instruction that the closest watch be kept ... on them...
Last week the Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, gossip monthly, reappeared on newsstands for the first time in two months. It had been sold by its founder-owner, Percival L. Harden, to Windsor Publishing Corp., owners of The Tatler & American Sketch, another gossip monthly, after two years, during which Mr. Harden was obliged by poor health to lease his property to an operating company (TIME. April 21). For 30 years prior to that. Publisher Harden had profited from chitchatting Club-Fellow...
Miss Bell, middle-aged spinster, Rine-hart-earmarked by common-sense and coolness, presided over a comfortable and well-run household. One evening as she sat in the living room after dinner she saw reflected in the mirror the feet of a man on the hall staircase. In spite of her coolness and common sense, the burglar got away. Soon after came the first murder. It was followed by two more, by three murderous assaults, one suicide. Author Rinehart knows well how to build up complications, weight the story with suspense, illuminate it with sudden flashes of climax that leave...