Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unperturbed and backed by his wife, the eldest sister in China's famed "Soong Dynasty" (TIME, Dec. 11), Finance Minister Kung announced with stoical aplomb that he was "considering" a 28% upping of China's most vital and widely detested tax, that on salt. To collect this tax Dr. Kung's brother-in-law and predecessor as Finance Minister, famed T. V. Soong, organized a special army of "salt tax troops" and was believed to have screwed out of the peasantry the last copper cash that they would pay without rebellion...
...brand of hell burst out in full vigor as civil war recommenced on a sizeable scale. The fight centered about the several armories, police-station, and forts which dot the mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas...
...many monarchs can take a revolution with the bland aplomb of Siam's spunky little King Prajadhipok who, hav-ng been through three in the past two years, last week faced his fourth...
...daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier writes with a great deal more solemnity and a good deal less charm than her grandfather, but she has aptitude and intelligence. The Progress of Julius, her third novel, is a florid 325-page portrait polished off with workmanlike aplomb...
...attention to is No. 3, a certain Captain Pyke. When a body is pulled out of the Thames, his wife (Anna May Wong) identifies it as her husband because of a peculiar ring the corpse is wearing. The diligently-coached Chinese-American actress remarks, in fact, with almost perfect aplomb: "It was an ancient heirloom belonging to my family in China. They gave...