Word: mien
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...Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free State Deputies' oath...
...Greece. Ordinary flowers were bestowed in the name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe's sarcophagus: The United States of America in commemoration...
...found public sentiment more favorable to President Hoover than it was a year ago, attributed it to popular approval of recent Hoover-sponsored measures against Depression, popular disapproval of malicious attacks on the President by political enemies. Physically the President appeared a little greyer, a little more serious of mien than he was at the two-year mark but in excellent health...
...Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. All of the stereotyped elements of light, small-town comedy are introduced in the evening's parade of the ridiculous. There is the sharp-tongued old grandmother who watches fights, domestic and public, with equal zest; there is the inescapable younger brother, of suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve out a musical career for her daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course, there is Dudley himself, the typical hail fellow well...
...Fields, that veteran comedian of the stage whose finesse and superbly funny acting is worth the entire admission fee. As a humble barber and former vaudeville and circus performer, Fields in this film finds himself at a fashionable dinner of the ball bearing concern. With calm mien and steady eye he uses the aerial route to pass two eclairs from one end of a table to the other. Both land safely, and this success spurs the guest on to additional tricks reminiscent of his younger days. Throughout his performance, Fields makes more use of actions than of lines...