Word: extrovertive
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...Payne), takes in a little girl from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
Jolly Cholly, an extrovert who exudes cheer and carries a banner of hilarity, inwardly is one of baseball's greatest worriers, a man who doesn't sleep well when things go bad. He slept fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying on the ball field and leaves it there, just waddled home to the Detroit-Leland Hotel and settled silently behind cigar smoke to read the horrible headlines. Sample (from the Detroit Free Press): "Tigers Wail...
Byrnes is a thoroughgoing Irish extrovert. Common sense is his guide; compromise is his method. He has never made any money; his wants are few (he once described them as "two tailor-made suits a year, three meals a day, and a reasonable amount of good liquor"). He is without airs, without bluff, and without any talent or taste for high society. But he has a courtly, Southern manner, and intense ambition. He is the man who would be President if Harry Truman died...
...Genial Friend. If any of the Japs then on duty in Siberia are still around Tokyo, they must know that old acquaintance will not help them now. Bob Eichelberger is a genial, dryly humorous extrovert with a consuming interest in people and an infinite capacity for liking them. But he is also a steel-hard soldier with a vast respect for unbending discipline and the same reverent regard for spit & polish that he got at the U.S. Military Academy almost 40 years ago. Tokyo's Japs can expect fair and efficient treatment. But no monkey business. And no favors...
...Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...