Word: extroverted
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Figurehead and real head of the fair is Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme...
...Extrovert Eleanor Roosevelt replied: "The greatest dangers to democracy seem to me to be apathy, a lack of personal responsibility and ability to look courageously at the world...
...order to keep his creative faculties unsullied by routine, Weaver leaves management of his cluttered office to two young assistants-La Verne N. Laseau and A. Marsden Thompson. Rather a diligent extrovert in his writings, he assumes such pen-names as Fargan Hathway, makes a point of quoting Baltasar y Morales Gracián, a 17th Century Spanish Jesuit. Buck Weaver's screwiest activities are occasional booklets he prints at his own expense. He justifies them as outlets for his inhibitions, as surface rashes on his emotional ego. Sample paragraph based on Olive Schreiner story of the "Hunter...
...Rough English translation: a stocky, extrovert woman and a slender introvert man. * PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN MARITAL HAPPINESS-McGraw-Hill Book...
...Bravig Imbs-Plenkle-Yewdale ($2.50). Dartmouth's bad boy, who almost a decade ago shocked Hanover by revealing his experience as butler in the home of a respected faculty member (The Professor's Wife), turns to reminiscence of his long residence in Paris. Still an irrepressible extrovert, Author Imbs devotes most of his current opus to little anecdotes about Gertrude Stein. George Antheil and their respective circles...