Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officials bustled up to lead her to the prize table and a flock of waiting photographers. The girl who had just successfully stormed the male citadel of the Millrose Games turned anxiously to a nearby friend. "Quick, do you have a mirror?" Wilma Rudolph asked. "Quick, do you have a comb...
Fields, a great crony of the author's. Mostly, Fowler reminisces about New York newspapering circa 1918-29, during which time he was managing editor of Hearst's Daily Mirror and American, and drops footnotes to big names and no-names...
Philip, perched on an elevated tower, dispatched it with his first shot. Only in faraway London was there disapproval, where uncompromising animal lovers were outraged by Philip's use of live lures. The professionally plebian Daily Mirror offered a disdainful parody...
...since mid-November has a Winchell line appeared in the New York Mirror, his base paper, or in the 140-odd other U.S. papers that take his column. On Nov. 17, in Winchell's space, the Mirror carried the byline of Winchell's customary summer replacement, slight, snappish Lee ("New York Confidential") Mortimer. With the shift went an explanation : "WW is ill with a staph infection. He will resume his column when he feels better. Meanwhile, Lee Mortimer's column will appear in this space." But as the weeks wore on, even this vague promise vanished, leaving...
...outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life. "It was an absolutely feudal club," he recalled later, and he hated...