Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last season Boston College won 17 games of 19 played, and several members of the 1946 nine were unable to retain their starting positions this year. Among Maguire's crop of promising Freshmen are rightfielder Frank O'Sullivan and catcher John Fitzgibbons, both of whom handle themselves with considerable aplomb...
...able to win Cincinnati some financial aid. In 1938, though the party had picked another candidate, he ran for the Senate of the U.S. His wife lent him her hand. Breathlessly, she rushed around the state, bouncing into the wrong meetings, but confronting every situation with rumpled and exuberant aplomb. "Once they told me I could only talk on Abraham Lincoln. But when I got through you couldn't tell where Lincoln left off and Bob Taft began." Bob was elected and went to Washington...
Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
Queen Elizabeth in the black silk robes of a barrister (she rated them as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple) looked moderately Portia-like, completely queenly, in a portrait by James Gunn. She gazed with perfect aplomb at visitors to the Royal Academy's summer show in London; later, barristers would gaze back at her, permanently on a Middle Temple wall...
...Earl of 'Halifax, retiring British Ambassador, faltered momentarily as he talked with Omaha newspaper reporters about the proposed $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan to Britain, but recovered with diplomathematical aplomb: "I've always been bad on sums. . . . Let's see, what did I say, millions or billions...