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...Mirror-Lined Boudoirs. The same investigators who found Nelly also tried to probe into Perón's hidden wealth, reportedly stowed in Swiss banks. That the sum is huge was clear enough after newsmen last week got a look at the way the dictator used to live...
...Mirror. London in Hogarth's age was a smallish city, as statistics go now. It was a place where the procession to the pillory of a popular prostitute (like Moll Hervey, who was set up at the Blackamoor's Head and Sadler's Arms in Hedge Lane) or an unpopular madam (like Mother Needham of Park Place, St. James's) might bring out a bigger crowd than a coronation. Londoners were a people who had yet to regard understatement as a virtue or overdrinking as a vice...
...wives in those unenlightened times more than Dr. Kinsey concedes to the present. It was not a mealymouthed age; "nasty stinking breath" was the King's English of the second George for "halitosis." Above all, it was always tough-minded and could look at itself in the mirror. Hogarth made the mirror...
...movie out of Trilby, George du Maurier's period novel of 1894, Director Noel Langley decided to play the story straight. As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris...
...steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...