Word: mien
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...gentleman of flawless Harvard accent and Parisian mien is Dr. Vikyuin Wellington Koo, the great Chinese diplomat who is now Minister to France, who held the like post in Washington and London, who has dominated Chinese diplomacy at every World Conference from Versailles to the London Economic, was acting Premier of China for eight months a decade ago and who last week at Geneva presided over the 96th session of the League Council as its president. ¶ Fresh from Madrid arrived the Council's special Medical Commission of two French doctors and one Polish to report "the health...
...them side by side, the King and Mrs. Simpson?" asked a disappointed client of motherly mien...
...celebrate the creation of another Empire, that which Italy has carved in Ethiopia. Countess Edda was accompanied by her husband, Il Duce's protégé: the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. This amiable and rather plump young man has had difficulty in acquiring the mien of his father-in-law the Dictator, but has now learned to frown almost without visible effort. It was a proud moment when even the U. S., British and French ministers to Austria raised their wine glasses as Chancellor Schuschnigg proposed the toast to Mussolini's new Empire-even though...
...Spanish Civil War, the Radical Madrid Cabinet were driven to flee from the capital last week by the conquering White Armies of singularly humorous and carefree Francisco Franco, a commander who even in the darkest days of his campaign surprised correspondents by keeping up an ebullient and ever-smiling mien to be compared only to that of President Roosevelt...
...grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing anything. They studied books calculated to deepen their "modesty of mien and deportment." Learning that men were apt to be turned into "wild beasts" if such modesty was departed from, Eleanor could only picture a raging beast in terms of a dog she had once seen go mad, was consequently very modest lest she send the baker's boy into...