Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer aplomb, the proper Bostonian can scarcely be bettered. When Mr. and Mrs. N. Penrose Hallowell were selling their home to Mr. Howard Johnson of eatery fame, Mrs. Hallowell expressed the hope that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson would have a happy future in the house. There was a perceptible silence. Then Master Johnson, age nine, piped up, "There isn't any Mrs. Johnson. One's dead and one's divorced," adding hopefully, "but Daddy's got a girl friend." As the silence turned glacial, Mr. Hallowell rose from his fireside, smote the roadside restaurateur smartly...
...always' delightful: Jean Gabin. After the initial shock of seeing him without grey hair and enormous bags under his eyes (in this condition he bears an uncomfortable resemblance to Spencer Tracy) one quickly realizes that the head hood is unchanging. Gabin emerges from his cores with his usual aplomb and his gloriously rumpled deadpan intact. He is the only criminal around who can slap everybody in sight, including two lovely ladies, without ever appearing to be anything more than a pompous but lovable businessman a little out of sorts...
...loss, which broke a three game winning streak and left the squad with a 4-3 record, was not as dismaying as it was frustrating. Running the club, and passing with aplomb, quarterback Bill Humenuk kept Crimson partisans excited throughout the second half...
...controversial speaker was scarcely disturbed by a barrage of eggs thrown from the rear balcony during the question period. After a group of college students shot out of the auditorium, the moderator, with amazing aplomb, called the meeting to order. Mrs. Douglas quipped. "Just eggs? I thought they were light bulbs," and continued to criticize President Eisenhower as freely as before...
...Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza. Not confined like Khrushchev to Manhattan, he motored up to Hyde Park to visit Franklin Roosevelt's grave. Tito even maintained his aplomb after stumbling down a flight of marble stairs while hurrying to welcome Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan. Leaping to his feet, the 68-year-old Tito cried jovially: "I fell so fast and got up so fast, you photographers had no time to take a picture...