Word: elan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little faith? And anyway, it is part and parcel of the nuance, the devil may care, the grand elan that makes the Vagabond such a lovable old wastrel. Ask anyone you meet, "What makes the Vagabond such a delightful character?" and the answer will come back, "Why it's because he's so horrid, inaccurate and unbelievable...
Like the late great Poet Robert Browning, Edwin Arlington Robinson writes poetry dramatically. In the work of both poets, however, psychological action, messengered emotion take precedence over narrative. But Browning had an elan that New Englander Robinson has not. A subtler poet if not a subtler psychologist, Edwin Arlington Robinson is a Browning without the bounce...
...full dress with the same elaborate nonchalance that he evidences when clad in unpressed tweeds and rumpled coat; canes are permissable on Park Avenue but are decidedly not correct in Harvard Square; he wears spats under no conditions. His hat is rumpled and decadent, giving a touch of elan to an otherwise spotless appearance. The typical specie has a fleet of luxurious motor cars, one for every mood, and a charge account at the leading night clubs in a half-dozen cosmopolitan cities...