Word: aplomb
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Guaranty's Case, With the aplomb of a man at the head of the third largest U. S. bank, Guaranty Chairman William Chapman Potter's affidavit retorts: "I resent these allegations in the complaint and in Mr. Young's affidavit and brand them as utterly false. The Guaranty Trust Co. has repeatedly told Mr. Young and his representatives that ... the only desire of the Guaranty Trust Co. was to protect the interests of the bondholders of Alleghany Corp., for whom it is trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were...
China's heavily fortified defense line, the so-called "Hindenburg Line" about 200 miles north of captured Nanking (see p. 17), was being approached from both sides by fresh Japanese thrusts last week with such vigor that Hankow dispatches reported the aplomb of the Chinese Government there "shattered...
...boned, eagle-bald William Cameron Forbes was over 60 and paunchy when he astonished Peiping's hard-riding legation set one day in 1931 by climbing on a Mongolian pony and playing a fast game of polo. As U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Forbes displayed no less aplomb at his diplomatic tasks in Tokyo during the strained days of the Manchurian crisis. His wealth, tact and toughness won him such respect among the Japanese that at a farewell banquet before his return to the U. S. the president of the House of Peers declared him "a worthy compeer...
...Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff; in German, anheimeln, entmündigen, schadenfroh, Weltschmerz, Zeitgeist; in French chic, aplomb, verve, elite, chicane...
Since Italian diplomacy is particularly adult and the British is too, members of the entourage of Sir Eric and Count Ciano> said with aplomb that of course the pact is a perfectly cold-blooded piece of advantage-seeking on both sides and that if it ever becomes to British or Italian interest to heave it into Europe's dustbin, that is where it will go, with no hard feelings between the diplomatic professionals. They have simply tried to end the insanity of the British Constitutional Democratic Monarchy having ever found itself in a quarrel with the Italian Fascist Corporative...