Word: mien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance business (plus a fortune) from his father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with a masklike mien. Sports writers described him as dour. Loosening up afterward he explained that he thought a stranger in another land should be quiet, that if he talked he was afraid he might appear to be "talking some one out of a match...
...Speaker's Chair when the new Reichstag met for its first business session this week sat 210 Ib. of Fascism. Not merely fat but broad, big-boned and mighty-muscled, Speaker Hermann Goring cut the figure of a squat ogre. But slender and insignificant of mien. Chancellor Franz von Papen was present, carrying ostentatiously under his arm a potent slingshot & pebble: an undated decree dissolving the Reichstag signed by President von Hindenburg...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...
...York Harbor aboard a ferry boat, Harold Donahue and John Cusack, brokers, eyed a man of scholarly mien for a long time. They approached the man peered into his face. "You're Stalin!' accused Broker Donahue. The man protested that he was Dr. Cornelius Mezei, pathologist of Sea View Hospital. "You're Trotsky!" contradicted Broker Cusack, grasping Dr. Mezei firmly by the cravat When the boat docked, Brokers Donahue & Cusack turned their find over to Federal agents, who promptly released him. Said Dr. Mezei: "They wanted to see my passport. They said they were Secret Service...
...explaining to Parliament last week his reasons for shifting into Opposition when suddenly roving-eyed Deputy Ludwig Szilagyi shouted: "Gentlemen, there is kissing going on in the gallery!" As Deputies raised their eyes to the gallery they saw a handsome young woman lapped upon a man of aristocratic mien. With a shriek she fled, he followed and Speaker Almassy had difficulty in quieting the excited Deputies. "To be sure we all recognize her and we all recognize him," said Speaker Almassy severely, "but the fact that an actress and a lawyer* have procured gallery tickets and used them...