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Word: mirroring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news tip came to Los Angeles' Mirror-News Columnist Paul V. Coates on Christmas Eve. In Riverside, Calif., Coates was told, a prisoner had been in jail for twelve days. Reason for the prisoner's arrest, as stated in the official record: he was "in danger of leading a lewd and immoral life." Age of the prisoner: seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Prisoner | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally into a monastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medieval Tapestry | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...packed with scenes of horror. Children are slaughtered, adolescent girls raped, women's breasts cut off, men's eyes torn out. But unlike most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and vices for the sake of the thrill. She has merely held up a mirror to the 13th century so that her readers might know what it was like. Young Haguenier's marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded and loved. Herbert's story is a chilling indication of what life could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medieval Tapestry | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Gemini. The Class of 1930 will vote not to hold a reunion, with one Alumni Association officer explaining, "Their class spirit just never seemed to jell." The liquor, already purchased, will be donated to the New York Mirror's list of the 100 seediest families...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick A Star, Any Star... | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Unable to pay $90,000 in wages to his 600 employees, McKinnon shut down the 31-year-old News. He sold its name and many of its features and circulation lists to Publisher Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Mirror. The price was only enough for the News to pay back wages and back federal taxes. McKinnon had expected to get $500,000 in new money from a group headed by Robert K. Straus, a member of the family that controls R. H. Macy (TIME, Nov. 8). But last week Straus and his group backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death in Los Angeles | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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