Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallflower. Arthur Murray's success grew out of his extreme shyness. As a boy on Manhattan's lower East Side he couldn't work up enough courage to dance with girls. On the theory he has held ever since, that personal popularity parallels dancing ability, he grimly learned to dance, soon won a settlement house "flatfoot waltz" contest. From that he went on to be a dance instructor for Vernon and Irene Castle, among others. When he was making $100 a week, he quit to study business administration at Georgia Tech. Said he: "I didn...
...Clappers felt attracted to Wilson's idealism, amused by Coolidge's shyness, repelled by Hoover's icy remoteness, but Clapper did his dogged best to exclude these personal feelings from what he wrote. One Roosevelt story that Clapper never wrote, and his widow now tells, concerns a rumor that spread through Washington that Henry Morgenthau would become Ambassador to France. Franklin Roosevelt heard of it, jotted off a note to his Treasury Secretary: "Henry, see by the newspapers you are going to Paris. . . . As Al Smith is reported to have wired the Pope after the 1928 election...
...medical standards, he was a plain NP (neuropsychiatric) case. But by G.I. standards he was a very brave soldier. He doggedly slogged his way through three months of bloody action. By the time he finally collapsed in an Army hospital, he was ready to tell his sorry story of shyness, nervousness, worry. Why had he been such a good soldier? "I forced myself to carry on. All my life I obeyed. I couldn't bring myself to disobey...
Caspar Milquetoast is the only character Cartoonist Webster has ever given a name to-and Caspar,* with appropriate shyness, sneaked into the strip as a space filler. The rest of Webster's bald-headed bores, thin, puzzled wives, and freckle-faced kids need no name; they are, when they hit the mark-as they often do-Everyman...
...Family, Social Worker Cynthia Rice Nathan told how jungle-rot shyness is handled at Moore General Hospital near Asheville, N.C. The hospital explains away the townspeople's fears, a Red Cross social worker coaxes the men out of hiding. When they get up nerve to go to town, no one gives them a second glance...