Word: pincenez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti had a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, onetime conductor of the Scala in Milan. Conductor Panizza is a lean, sparse-haired man who wears pincenez and a measly mustache. But he quickly proved himself a sure-fire opera leader, made the tunes so fetching that even the boxholders were hard put to it not to whistle...
Like Roosevelt, Dr. Bevan wears pincenez which (unlike Roosevelt) he removes when he starts to talk. He is tall and plump, has a way of leaning toward a listener as though he were about to impart a great confidence...
...last seven years of his life Marshal Ferdinand Foch with his pincenez perched on his nose, sat in his little office in the top of the Hotel des Invalides covering long sheets of foolscap with his precise schoolmaster's handwriting. He was writing his memoirs. Historians and editors who hoped that these piles of paper might help solve the problem of War Guilt, define the exact value of U. S. troops in the victory, state the real contribution of the Commander-in-Chief, chafed at the thought that by the cautious Marshal's wish the book...
Appearance: Although 76 years old, he appears 15 years younger. His eyes, behind pincenez, are bright, his step is lively, his manner politely alert. He dresses well, usually in light grey. He has a pleasant easy smile, speaks in a low voice, ingratiates strangers. An Episcopalian, he regularly attends St. John's Church in Washington, St. John's Church in Stamford. He does not smoke...