Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eminence on Eminence. Soon he was painting the great with gentility and aplomb. "Oh, your eminence, on that eminence, if you please," he said, waving Cardinal Newman to a model's throne. "The attendant priests were somewhat scandalized when, seeing the cardinal hesitate, [Millais] added, 'Come, jump up, you dear old boy.' " In no time at all Millais was living in a luxurious house, complete with stately columns, fountains and a black marble sea lion. "Has paint done all this, Mr. Millais?" asked Carlyle, adding in his genial way, "It only shows how many fools there...
...horsemen, mule-skinners, mountain climbers, trappers, prospectors, guides. Short to medium-sized men, the Army has found, tire less quickly at high altitudes. Fear of high places (acrophobia) is not always a disqualification: many a man who has felt nervous on a stepladder quickly learns a mule's aplomb on precipice edges...
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Scene 3, Act 3 (Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Arthur Kent, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier; Victor; 4 sides). With gutbusting aplomb, the Metropolitan Opera's newest tenor handles the death soliloquies of Lucia's hero...
...Aplomb. In St. Louis, caught speeding on his motorcycle for the seventh time, Bernard Miller explained that he had to go at least 35 miles an hour to keep his cycle upright...
...brought his Pa, his Ma and his three sisters up from Hartsville, S. C. to watch him play in his first World Series. Father Newsom had never seen a World Series game, had only once in his 68 years been in a big-league ball park. With characteristic aplomb, Old Showboat predicted that he would win two World Series games. "Yeah, I'll outpitch Derringer," he drawled...