Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of a lord's estate, covers a mammoth ammunition dump of 80,000 tons of aerial bombs, shells of all calibers. In steel huts are 33,000,000 rounds of one type of shell. The master and his family, who live in this volcanic world with calm aplomb, have turned over most of the manor house to U.S. officers. Relations between manor and mess are happy, especially so since the day U.S. troops pumped out the manor house's flooded basement and discovered my lord's lost hunting horn. In still another English depot, covering...
...what surprised youngish musicians was the fact that beauteous Lillian Russell was also obviously a woman of voice. She took her high notes with operatic aplomb, turned her phrases with the delicacy of a diva. There was even a hint in the recording of the lump in Lillian's throat which she frequently got when she sang this particular song. That catch in the throat had a history...
...legs failed to explode, left him his life. For nine years the Golden Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow of a Morgan partner, and mother of Colonel (former Assistant Secretary of War) Trubee and of World War II naval officer Harry P. She refused to become New York State Mother...
...calm center of all this commerce is a small, dapper, pink-cheeked inheritor of the great Polish piano traditions. He can toss off a gesture with the aplomb of a Vladimir de Pachmann. (When his Manhattan visit last week was attended by a heavy snowstorm Rubinstein looked out his hotel window and shrugged. "The weather," said he, "has no effect upon me. I impose my personality upon the weather...
...with characteristic aplomb, this new form of social service plans to carry on, despite the dangerous presence of aggressive and married officers...