Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...