Word: aplomb
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...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...
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...