Word: mien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bricker sweated to send his first Legislature home with a record worthy of a Presidential prospect. His biggest chore: to get a $9,250,000 Relief appropriation passed without having to impose new taxes, which would violate his campaign pledges. His biggest asset, other than his own vigor and mien, is the fact that his predecessor was bumbling Democrat Martin Luther Davey, whose administration thoroughly fed up Ohioans of all parties. Last week Governor Bricker signed one of several bills designed to oust Davey holdovers. His latest "ripper" ejected from the State parole board the former Governor's former...
...facts of Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitzky's life belie his haughty mien but not his profession. He was born in 1874 in the tiny bedraggled central Russian village of Vyshny Volochek. His mother, who died shortly after he was born, was a pianist; his father gave lessons on the violin. A poor boy, destined by a traditionally musical family for a musical career, he was soon on his way to Moscow in search of a scholarship at Moscow's Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory...
...Senate: Balddomed, small chinned, doleful and dull of mien, Senator McGill has only one conspicuous mannerism-a "haha" which he inexplicably tacks on the end of his infrequent speeches. His voting record is Yes to every Roosevelt proposal: so faithful is he that, along with New Mexico's Hatch, he tried to launch a substitute Supreme Court bill after the President himself had given...
...essential," he snarled, "that no element of the casino be allowed. . . ." To President Gay these words carried conviction. That harried broker, whose worries and heavy dewlap had combined to give him the mournful mien of a bloodhound, by this time had alienated almost everybody. Douglas linked him with the Old Guard. Shields, Hanes and Pierce, his original backers, were fed up with...
...practiced law. In Indo-China, where Communists have had notable success in fomenting native unrest, M. Reynaud helped restore order when he was Minister of the Colonies (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931). Aged 58, he looks younger, annoys the earnest Left with his barbed Gallic wit, his habitually ironic mien. The Moderate Left acknowledged him the leading exponent of the moderate Right. Excepting Bonnet, no Premier cared to form a Cabinet without him, and because the Communists opposed him, it seemed that no Cabinet could be formed with...