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...next most eminent prisoner was Lev Kamenev (ne Rosenfeld), onetime President of the Moscow Soviet and Ambassador to Italy, professorial in his fastidious dark suit,' trim white beard and twinkling pince-nez. The other 14 prisoners, obscure at first, were destined for notoriety last week as the trial proceeded...
...speaker lifts the pince-nez from his nose: they snap to their stations on his pearl grey waistcoat. Folding shut the little brown volume, he gathers a few odd papers, picks a soft grey fedora from the top of the desk. Students sit glued to their chairs. Gaily, resolutely, unperturbed the lecturer marches down the aisle and out the door...
...seemed loathe to break her collection even for the Museum of the City of New York or the Metropolitan Opera, both avid for her famed Isolde costume. Most passe singers are more pathetic than impressive. But Fremstad defied pity when she stood among her relics. She wears pince-nez now. Her greying hair is piled high on her head. But the grand manner was still hers when a reporter queried her about the Elsa mantle, asked its age. Her eyes snapped then as they did at the opera house: ''What difference does it make? It is Elsa, Elsa...
...floor, 600 listeners above him in the galleries, cheered and applauded as Franklin Roosevelt mounted to the desk of the Clerk in the House of Representatives one evening last week. The President unstrapped his gold wrist watch, laid it on the desk before him; removed his pince nez and laid them beside his manuscript. Then spreading his feet wide, he took a firm grip on the sides of the desk. "Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. . . ." Solemnly the best radio voice in the U. S. pronounced the ancient formula by which...
Dear Nancy: I joined a nudist colony near Paris. . . . While there, a scholarly, paunchy old gentleman clad only in a pince-nez, read Hudson's Green Mansions...