Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth, intelligence, vitality and childishness. He drives his Bentley at top speed, depending for guidance on his passengers ("What's that coming up on the left, Mick? Good God, you should have warned me minutes ago. It nearly hit us"). He flies his deHavilland Moth with the aplomb of Wrong Way Corrigan. Aiming for France, he makes a forced landing instead on a race track in Ireland. Even when he hears a native's brogue, Greenbloom insists that he is near Chantilly, dismisses the fellow as talking "some kind of patois . . . He must be a Basque...
...translation, by rights the central subject of a new review, is undoubtedly excellent. The element of melodrama which Cocteau injected into a bizarre and sensitive tale (with an aplomb which indicated his future talents as a moviemaker) is rightly handled...
...morning coffee in Texas' 102-year-old executive mansion, Democratic Governor Price Daniel nearly got plastered. While chatting with some 100 lady guests, Daniel was almost conked by a ton of collapsed ceiling, but carried on as host with stalwart aplomb...
...crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines's big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire with smiling aplomb and efficient service. Smarting under Al Smith's attempt to run Tammany, Hines backed Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932, won a fat reward that left Tammany with tongue drooping; F.D.R. handed him the job of dispensing all federal patronage in Manhattan...
...convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...