Word: shyness
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...memory of Norman Foster in that epitome of dullness, "Pilgrimage," serves to turn the reviewer against that noble gentleman, but it cannot be said that his schoolboy shyness in speech and action go amiss in "Walls of Gold." It is still difficult, however, to watch him when he is angry. Mr. Foster should confine himself to such parts as he played in "State Fair...
...Conant's shyness, the big note in the Transcript's stories of last year, has not disappeared over the summer. Probably it has increased a bit, as the following piece of news should prove. Needing a secretary in his new job, President Conant was given the name of Vernon Munroe, '31. Vernon was summering on the Cape, when he received a call from Cambridge. The ensuing conversation was on this order...
...greatest natural gift is being able to switch off the current of his personality whenever he wishes to be unnoticed in company. He can look heavy and stupid, even vulgar; and uses this power constantly in self-protection. . . . He is uncomfortable with strangers: this is what is called his shyness. . . . He avoids eating with other people. ... He hates waiting more than two minutes for a meal or spending more than five minutes on a meal." He eats anything from diseased camel meat up. Says he, "To me, all food is alike except oysters and parsley. I don't like oysters...
...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...