Word: mirroring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...board chairman, vacant since the death (in 1949) of his father, Cigar-Store-Chain Founder David A. Schulte. A native New Yorker, Brown started selling shoes at 18, studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department store. In 1936 he began selling whisky for Seagram & Sons, and after a stint with several other distillers went to Beam as sales vice president...
...skimpy schooling, and the most dramatic event he later recalled from his childhood was the day Lafayette, on a triumphal visit to Brooklyn, picked him up and kissed him. By 15 Walt was working in a printing office and getting anonymous little pieces published in the old New York Mirror...
...down, he was placed in an iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died, on his forty-fourth birthday, unable because of his paralysis...
...addition of a slogan. During World War II Shahn became a poster artist for the Government, later put the horror and ruin of war into some of the most powerful pictures of his career. The changes of history were clearly not stranding Shahn; he still held a wickedly glinting mirror up to the woes of the world. But that job ceased to satisfy...
...moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state of the nation's security on April 14, 1865 look appalling...