Word: aplomb
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...Emperor that, after a conference with his mother, Queen Mary, breathless York alighted at his home and rushed inside to tell his Duchess the latest with the long-legged bounce of a bolting jack rabbit, too fast for anything but the camera to catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week a palpitating and perspiring fat man dashing between No. 10 Downing St. and Buckingham Palace in an atmosphere so agitated that he even forgot...
...many a literary free-for-all contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat. Novelist Frank Swinnerton described some staggering setbacks with the doggedly hopeful air of a championship contender who does not know he has already been knocked out several times...
...Aplomb never leaves Squire Baldwin, but Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was visibly nervous as he denied that Britain had put pressure on the radical French Cabinet to force them to propose the Neutrality Agreement barring arms shipments to Spain. "I wouldn't believe Eden on a stack of Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that...
...Italian Kingdom when handsome young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden rose to speak. In the gallery sat Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, whose spade beard turned from black to grey during the weeks and months of British-Italian threats and bickering over Ethiopia. Suavely Captain Eden, with the complete aplomb which he gained at Eton, Oxford and in the trenches, told the House that the pro-Ethiopian, pro-League and anti-Italian policy upon which his whole career and promotion to Foreign Secretary was based, is now no more. Said the Foreign Secretary sonorously: "His Majesty's Government, after mature...
...plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...