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  • n  spectacles clipped to the nose by a spring

  • Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon.
  • His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to .
  • When Minister Tardieu's turn came, he adjusted his pince-nez and pierced the blatancies of his opponent with icy logic.

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