Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nobody, down to the rawest delegate, was fooled by this coy talk. In deciding to make politics their No. 1 business, C.I.O. leaders were making a $5,000,000 gamble that they could forge the 12,000,000 U.S. labor union members into a solid voting bloc; that they could then offer these votes to Franklin Roosevelt in return for another New Deal, and that the President would run and be reelected...
Sued for Divorce. Army Air Forces Sergeant Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr., 28, peacetime Yankee centerfielder, by Dorothy Arnoldine Olson Di Maggio, 25, blonde ex-cinemactress; after four years of marriage and two coy visits by her to Reno within the last two years; in Los Angeles...
Most frequently mentioned for the job thus far have been Breckinridge Long and Dean Acheson. now Assistant Secretaries of State; Ambassador to Mexico George S. Messersmith; James C. Dunn, political relations adviser to Hull; and Wayne Coy, Assistant Director of the Budget. None of these would solve Franklin Roosevelt's dilemma. Under the present organization of the Department, no one could be a really successful Under Secretary...
...hundred and twenty-five pounds of good humour, five feet five and eyes of hazel, "Miss Lupe" thinks Midshipmen are "swell says," and she's sure we'll make the world's best officers. Being very coy about her social life, all Lupy would say is "Yes, I have dated ensigns," and "No, I've never been out with a Midshipman...
...actress does not belie the woman. Ruth Gordon has a sharp tongue in her head, no coy sweetness, no fake modesty. Told she stands on the theater's top rung, she retorts: "It's about time." Told that The Three Sisters will be a model for aspiring actresses, she snaps: "It should be." Asked to compare her acting with Cornell's and Anderson's, she counters: "Do you say that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down...