Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...
...Davis sat. Secretary Andrew William Mellon (Treasury), got the chair on the President's immediate left, of course. He kept his chin up, with his lean, close-cropped, snowy head cocked alertly until the camera clicked. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, physically the biggest Cabinet man, betrayed camera-shyness in his expressions of head, face, hands (one holding a cigar) and crossed legs. Postmaster General Harry Stewart New took his seat on the last chair, frowning benignly and nowhere nearly so tightly as Secretary Kellogg (whose expression was almost challenging) or the President...
...austere, cried out in the music of every man's sorrow, Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential welcome and when Beethoven, on glancing over some variations dedicated to him by the tim id visitor, appeared to be amazed by what...
Fearing the extinction of whales but, because of their size and shyness, knowing little of their dietary and conjugal habits, their birthrate and the length of their lives, the British Government is sending a ship to sea for two and a half years of whale study, it announced last week. A gun will be carried to fire, into every whale sighted, a dart carrying an identification disk. In after years, from reports by capturers of tagged whales, it is hoped to learn whether whales are polygamous or monogamous, rovers or stay-at-homes, old at 25 or young as centenarians...
Came the two royal landaus and Edward of Wales was whirled off through a drizzly rain and an ovation unprecedented even for him. On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness...