Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that the average man orders bacon and eggs for breakfast. He is a hoary headed old buzzard . . . with the instincts of a young bull ... a master mechanic in the art of seduction...
...little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...
...good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...
...world's rulers. But in his second book, What Manner of Man?, Author Busch set himself the task of discussing the world's most-written-about head of state. He approached the subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt with precisely the same mixture of curiosity, detachment and aplomb that he took to Riad. The result is, with the possible exception of Gerald W. Johnson's Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat, the most balanced and readable book about the President that has yet appeared...
...dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon be one of those to die-and Raider Chief Evans Carlson wrote us later to express his "very genuine admiration" for Sherrod's "courage, fortitude and superb aplomb...