Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like talent scouts coming backstage, the trustees called. Besides her Wellesley background, her Pulitzer Prize and her ability to cope with a college class, it appeared that Margaret Clapp had other qualities important in a college prexy serenity and aplomb. "Head and shoulders above any of the other candidates," reported Weeks. The rest of the trustees agreed. They popped the question. Yes, said Miss Clapp, she would take...
...whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with plump aplomb, and her ideas of a good party were known to differ from those held in Luxembourg...
...while Lydia bore herself with the aplomb and dignity of one convinced that she had made a significant contribution to humanity. Never did she heed ridicule or doubt the efficacy of her home-brewed remedies-not even when they failed to save the consumptive...
Slaughter (three out of six) and Pitcher Howie Pollet (who muffled the Dodger bats): Cards 14, Dodgers 1. In the fourth game, the Dodgers recovered their aplomb sufficiently to tie the Cards, 4-4, in a contest cut short to let both teams catch trains for the West. League leaders (by half a game): the St. Louis Cardinals...
...With the aplomb and discretion of an admiral, Ensign Brown held his first and only press conference to describe his four year voyage. "As far as the silent treatment is concerned, I can't think of any case of anyone doing anything since I've been here. If you mean do the fellows speak to me-well, for the most part most of them do." As for the officers and civilian personnel, "they couldn't have been more impartial...