Word: mien
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...scene in the saga of the Rover Boys surpassed in tension a scene enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...
...Rothschild is not so great in Germany today as the House of Mendelssohn. Bankers to the House of Romanov up to 1914, Mendelssohn & Co. suffered temporary eclipse when Germany declared war on Russia, later emerged more potent than before. Sixty-five years old, tall, clean-shaven and of impressive mien, Franz von Mendelssohn did not go to Washington last week. He addressed the congress, whose president he will be next year, from Berlin. "My voice," said Mighty Mendelssohn, "as that of a single individual coming across the ocean, is weak and feeble. But I remind you that other voices...
...from not knowing how to eat wheat are the Chinese. Many miles of noodles (mien), fried, boiled, cooked with egg, chicken, beef or pork, are lifted annually by Chinese chopsticks, slithered and sucked into Chinese mouths. North of the Yangtze Kiang steamed bread (mantos), made of wheat flour, is a chief part of the diet. In Yenching University dining halls, 128 Cantonese boys eat rice, 300 Northerners eat bread, all eat noodles...
...imported from Germany, was placed on the throne of Rumania by the native House of Bratianu. A dynasty of titanic Bratianu Prime Ministers ruled the land until Ion Bratianu's death (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). His brother, Vintila, every inch a Bratianu in height, broad frame and commanding mien, had not the necessary political dexterity to rule. Though Vintila became Prime Minister, the great Dynasty of Bratianu had already ended, and a peaceful peasant revolt toppled him from power (TIME, Nov. 12, 1928). Retainers found the handsome but embittered man lying on a bench in the park...
...national revolution . . . goes irresistibly on its way to triumph!" (TIME, Oct. 20). Now with majestic mien Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra spoke to the frightened cabinet...