Word: mien
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Against a tremendous improvised iconostasis (a screen built to hold icons when cathedral walls were full), visitors saw the tall spare figures of saints and Virgins, mournful of mien, with inclining haloed heads and slim-fingered hands. These paintings represented the oldest and most continuous art tradition of Europe-a tradition whose source was Byzantium ("icon" is from the Greek eikon, "image"). Icon painters of the 11th to 17th Centuries, "humble and mild and pious" (as a 16th Century Church Council enjoined them to be), painted as reverently as they prayed, "remembering the work of the earlier painters, following...
...somber mien was a mask that broke awrinkle in a quick smile. His facile, orderly discussion of military flying impressed them. Smooth and suave, he clinched their approval when they first heard his rather rare but richly accented and discriminating profanity illuminate a point...
...Wyoming," is a Western, fundamentally like all other Westerns past, present, and future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...
...Switzerland. Last week ex-King Alphonso of Spain, mindful of the time when the Met had raised $50,000 at a benefit for the University City of Madrid, promised a fat check. Total at week's end: $465,061. Chiefly responsible: Mrs. August Belmont, noble of voice and mien; handsome George A. Sloan, who married a Rockefeller and combines business with public service...
...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...