Word: shyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most attractive to women, says Author Mordell and he found time in between his propaganda work to carry on a lengthy series of flirtations. None of them came to anything. His first few loves rejected him because he was too poor; after that he seems to have become shyer of committing himself. At least once he was proposed to (by Poetess Mary Abigail Dodge), but weaseled out of it. Between the ages of 60 and 80 he attracted poetesses particularly, but "though in two or three poems he even condoned illicit love, he retained his chastity until he died...