Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important factors gained from this work are a firm foundation in sales talk and the overcoming of shyness which so often handicaps a young man at the start of his career. These asserts, however will require a goodly amount of work and originality on the part of the candidate...
...ways in which a baby may be born, The Forceps Operation was the most popular event at the A. M. A. convention. Some 5,000 physicians attended the screening, heard Dr. DeLee clear his throat, saw Dr. DeLee, who once wanted to be an actor, perform with no camera shyness...
...Judge Joseph Jerome Trabucco saw no reason for a fourth trial and set him free, Lamson lost his calm, stumbled weeping from the courtroom to see his 5-year-old daughter, Allene Genevieve. Bashful at first in the presence of a person she scarcely knew, Allene soon dropped her shyness, clasped her father in her arms, cried: "Oh, Daddy, where are you going to sleep...
...famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
...when he bought his first acreage west of the Rockies, "nor for our children, but for our grandchildren." Frederick had by that time begotten John Philip and three younger sons, three daughters. He had settled in a great house in St. Paul, whose richest citizen he was. But with shyness and dislike of ostentation characteristic of Weyerhaeusers to this day, Frederick's house was not quite so big as James J. ("Empire Builder") Hill's next door...