Word: extroverted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Kentuckian describes Barkley as "an extreme extrovert-but one with a feeling for what the other fellow is thinking." Translated into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through...
...legend of Conant the Wandering Scholar therefore has little substance An undergraduate impression also shared by many alumni and even some faculty members--that is harder to kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his make-up. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported...
French diplomats thought that President Auriol would be just the man for Americans to listen to. A cheerful, bubbling extrovert with a good, plain-spoken word for everybody, Auriol looks and acts like the mayor of a thriving French town (which he was for 15 years) or like a man who would enjoy a musical evening with Harry Truman. (Auriol plays the violin.) On his only previous visit to Washington, as a member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned...
...Herod came to General Electric Co. in 1919 from Yale (after a short interlude in the Army) with a tool kit full of honors in mechanical engineering, an extrovert's drive. He asked such questions as: "What does a fellow have to do to become president of a company like G.E.?" In 1945, Herod partially answered his own question. He took over as head of G.E.'s far-reaching subsidiary which runs factories in half a dozen foreign countries (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Turkey, the Union of South Africa) and sells over $100 million worth of equipment...
...According to the yarn, Smathers had a little speech for cracker voters, who were presumed not to know what the words meant except that they must be something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper before his marriage habitually practiced celibacy...