Word: extroverted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Byrnes is a thoroughgoing Irish extrovert. Common sense is his guide; compromise is his method. He has never made any money; his wants are few (he once described them as "two tailor-made suits a year, three meals a day, and a reasonable amount of good liquor"). He is without airs, without bluff, and without any talent or taste for high society. But he has a courtly, Southern manner, and intense ambition. He is the man who would be President if Harry Truman died...
...Genial Friend. If any of the Japs then on duty in Siberia are still around Tokyo, they must know that old acquaintance will not help them now. Bob Eichelberger is a genial, dryly humorous extrovert with a consuming interest in people and an infinite capacity for liking them. But he is also a steel-hard soldier with a vast respect for unbending discipline and the same reverent regard for spit & polish that he got at the U.S. Military Academy almost 40 years ago. Tokyo's Japs can expect fair and efficient treatment. But no monkey business. And no favors...
...Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...
...operation is an undeveloped field in the U.S. airline business. To keep it under control CAB wants to license only as many routes as the traffic will bear. In Colorado CAB must decide between applicants representing every shade of free enterprise, from well-heeled air lines to weathery, leathery extrovert ad venturers with shoestring capital. If licenses were granted to all, the West would be cobwebbed with airlines covering 190 cities...
...hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots, monkeys, half-naked Negro guards. In 1929 he went bankrupt, for a time was a Paris department-store designer at $4 a dress, finally went on the dole...