Word: mien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national revolution . . . goes irresistibly on its way to triumph!" (TIME, Oct. 20). Now with majestic mien Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra spoke to the frightened cabinet...
...devotee knows, he once worked as handyman in a New York bar. But for 25 years he has been a teetotaller, liking the looks but not the taste of wine. He lives with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself once played the ghost in Hamlet, hinnying like a snipe...
Tariff Warning. With a mien more solemn than even "Uncle Arthur's?," famed William Graham, President of the British Board of Trade and as such a member of the MacDonald cabinet, addressed the assembly pessimistically last week on "the general world depression and fall of commodity prices...
...great lady of most compelling and imperial mien is the Archduchess Isabella. The Austro-Hungarian Court has fallen, vanished, but in Budapest she holds court. So for that matter does her neighbor the Archduchess Augusta. It is no secret that members of the Corps Diplomatique, including the U. S. Minister, attend these "courts," bow with deepest consideration to their archducal hostess, and, approaching the large, thronelike-chair on which the Archduchess (either Isabella or Augusta) sits, kiss the back of her white-gloved right hand. The left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right...
First, according to the proprietor, a person with the mien of a policeman entered Cordials and Beverages carrying a copy of TIME, pointed accusingly to the story of the shop's booze-selling, demanded $75 hush money, received...