Word: complexions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poised & Plump. She has a superb complexion; everyone notices it right away. She moves with the unself-conscious ease of a person who knows she is alone in a room and won't be disturbed. When someone is talking to her, she concentrates completely on what he is saying, despite any & all distractions. During all the time I watched her the Queen maintained a remarkable expression on her face-as if this was an experience she had been awaiting months, and it had turned out better than she hoped...
Fashionable Parisians, convinced that inner lavements purified the complexion and produced good health, took as many as three or four enemas a day. The craze was often burlesqued on the stage, notably by Moliere, and it was a lively topic of elegant discourse in the salons...
...wrote British former liaison officer Fitzroy MacLean last week, Tito "was carrying out a widespread and effective resistance to the Germans, and Mihailovich, however good his intentions, was not. In those days the military effectiveness of our allies was a far more important consideration than their political complexion...
Decline of the West. The Church is also changing its administrative complexion in China. Last week China's first cardinal-shy, humble Thomas Tien was on his way back from Rome. He will take up residence not in Tsingtao (his old vicariate) or Nanking (China's capital) but in Peiping. Explained a Vatican spokesman: "Peiping is the moral capital of China, essentially Chinese, least subject to Western influence...
...will support that sort of foreign policy under any administration; and I hope that any administration, whatever its political complexion, will stick to that sort of a foreign policy for keeps. This sort of a policy, plus the effective operation of the United Nations, is the way to stop World War III before it starts...