Word: shyness
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...needed. Once in a while, his mother still worked as a scrubwoman. "It's not the money," she explained in her broken English. "I'm just lonesome for my friends." At 39, Joe was beginning to grey at the temples. He gradually lost some of his shyness, cracked an occasional joke...
...Testament is a plain-speaking pipe-smoking Presbyterian minister named Ernest Findlay Scott. For most of his 78 years, English-born Dr. Scott has been writing about Christianity and teaching it. For 19 years he was at Union Theological Seminary, where former colleagues still recall his shyness, forceful lectures...
Einstein is probably happiest among children, with whom he loses all his shyness and whom he keeps in gales of laughter. His kindness to children is proverbial. One little Princeton girl used this to good advantage: she got him to do her arithmetic homework for her. When suspected, she confessed simply: "Einstein...
...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...