Word: reflects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brentano's ($2.50). The lady of this 18th Century journal seems to have lived in a quiet way, in a Hall, by a forest, with her natural son, a few friends and a few gypsies for company. Some evenings she would draw close to her bedroom fire and reflect upon her unconventional estate, her mother love, the perfection of her absent lover, passing events in politics, art, literature, or upon life itself as she found it in her solitude. The texture of her mind was altogether extraordinary, far in advance of its time, indeed of this time too. Only...
...opinion that TIME the weekly newsmagazine is the best organ giving us the best and most important news in the most condensed form, but it does not reflect reality of the TIME we are living now. As per contents in reality...
...curious to reflect that the American debt settlement which has just been exposed to the cold blasts of unpopularity in Great Britain was entered into solely as an inevitable preliminary to restoring that standard. Otherwise we should have waited like sensible people and made a satisfactory all-round settlement with the U. S. and with our European debtors...
...irony, nor has he yet exhausted his variations on the subject. "The Love Nest," "Who Dealt?" and "Reunion" - all connubia- are the three best tricks in this new bagful, unless you choose "Haircut," wherein a smalltown barber unconsciously reveals his hero as a downright skunk. Most of the stories reflect the writer's present environment (Manhattan), figuring producers, stage folk, song-johnnies and the like. In "Women" he is true to his old love- ball players...
...superlatives finds annual expression in the Pulitzer prizes. The process is simple: after a judicial consideration of the mass of material turned out by the printing presses of the country, the committee announces its decisions, which thereupon receive first page treatment. In the scientific world, the awards often reflect merit. In the literary and dramatic domain where justice is a matter of opinion, much critical ink is used in denouncing the decisions...