Word: mien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion Visitor. The new president had a majestic mien, a Wall Street manner and a Midas touch, which eventually brought to Columbia $120,161,727. He was a new kind of college president, of a type now familiar: an administrator, a speech maker, a fund raiser, and not too much of a scholar...
Staring across Zaslavsky's desk is a plaster bust of Lenin, molded in sternest mien. Zaslavsky remembers - and well -that even before Lenin had a political party he founded a newspaper to promote revolution, assigned its correspondents...
Another Renaissance. A Burman justice named Chow Mien, leading a delegation notable for magenta skirts and orange Aunt Jemima turbans, took up Nehru's song of independence from the white man's rule. So did Mustapha Momen of the Arab League, whose delegates represented distant Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Said he: "Liberty has dawned and the world is destined to witness another renaissance in Asia." The first voice which had raised a war cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" was missing. Japan was not represented because, said Nehru, "Japanese are not allowed to leave their country...
Next day, the Colonel addressed a 100-man luncheon given for him by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler. With the mien of one accustomed to command, and the hypnotic oversimplification of a Tribune editorial, he explained the Greek crisis, e.g., Roosevelt allowed events to get out of control and now look at them. Then, as de facto boss of the Illinois G.O.P., he viewed party chances for 1948. "I don't think they're very good," he said. "The New York banks will control the Republicans again and run some stooge against Truman. ... It looks...
...light he looked ashen grey. His eyes were sunken, his skin flabby, his once thick mop of hair was grey, dry and scraggly. He looked his full 66 years. But his mien, as usual, was impassive...