Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when he painted, for a little Roman Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., a stunning set of murals to which art lovers have been making pilgrimage ever since (TIME, July 19, 1937). Last week slight, courtly, volatile Artist Vanka nearly popped with affability and shyness as Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of his work...
...never gave a public address; he went to only one scientific meeting in his life. His retiring nature was far from a result of shyness, but sprang rather from a sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic...
...hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite to ask. There were rumors that Montague had gold mines in Arizona. This was merely because he often disappeared into the desert for months at a time...
...able to say things, my dear." She is only talking to her faithful dog, being too shy to say it to anyone else, but she means it. Rosamund has suffered so much that she has been able to say a great deal, and has become a bestseller. Her shyness arises from the fact that she was born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures...
...faculty is on the whole available, though shyness on the part of a few might lead to the impression that they resented intrusions. They are all pretty active in research and are definitely interested in the undergraduate and his problems if he manifeats real interest in the subject...