Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Society for the Control of Cancer no longer has much money for an effective anti-cancer campaign, although the Society has just announced it would enlarge its Bulletin and have nothing to do with the Chemical Foundation's American Journal of Cancer. Another accident has been the shyness of the Society's director. Dr. Clarence Cook Little, with the Press-the cheapest, most effective means of honorable public health propaganda...
...citizenship in the U. S., a ward boss-ship in the republic of letters and a large (6 ft. 3 in.), fat (225 Ib.) size. As with many big men, his voice is unexpectedly high. At literary teas, to which he grimly goes, he suffers, becomes galvanized with shyness. He speaks English with a slight accent that sounds Irish rather than Dutch. Van Loon arrived in the U. S. at 21, was graduated from Cornell (1905), became successively newshawk, Ph.D., lecturer. A. P. correspondent in Belgium at the beginning of the War, he saw the siege of Antwerp, was nearly...
...many themes and reports, where an anxious solemnity has routed levity. Nevertheless, the critique is acute and readable. The stories in the issue show a lighter touch, if less care. Structurally, they are not stories at all, but rather anecdotes, character studies, Mr. Donaldson's "A Form of Shyness" is particularly well-done. He finds himself at home with his characters, and they live--almost too well. Mr. Sulzberger's "Lena" is not on the same level. It is to be regretted that there is not more in the number in the way of book reviews and musical and dramatic...
...pony, cuts figures around the knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum...
Died. George V's eldest sister, H. R. H. Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, 63, Princess Royal, Dowager Duchess of Fife, called by Edward VII "Your Royal Shyness," ist member of British Royalty to become a cinemaddict...