Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was one difference: our friend made one mistake. He was above all practical. Ideals, hollow traditions and mock morals were not for him. With gentle, piercing strokes, he painted human nature as it was then and has always been. His writings have been a mirror in which men have seen themselves as they were, and the image has not pleased them...
...swayed there, preening himself. With the aid of the mirror he cast an eye over the unfamiliar territory at the nape of his neck, and noted with pleasure that the hair removed from that vicinity by a crew cut last October was already coming in nicely. His eyes, too, be noticed. They drooped at just the right angle for a fellow who's studying up until eleven or twelve at night to keep from getting "bounced out of the old place...
Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
...corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly Asks Why? . . . Is Mrs. Selznik such a social wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Goldwyn such a wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Louis B. Mayer...
Next day Dan Parker, sports editor of the Hearst Mirror, retaliated with his own fairy tale which began: "Once upon a time there was a dwarf named Screwball Bowers. Now, Screwball wasn't like other dwarfs. He was dwarfed only from the neck up." Parker's parable went on to belittle Screwball Bowers' sports knowledge, questioned his sincerity and significantly wound up with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper...