Word: extroverted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love to lampoon. ... I see no hypocrisy in concern for the general good coupled with an interest in private advancement...
...Masaryk is 57 and the most popular diplomat in London-the most welcome of all those Continental statesmen who habitually visit the U.S. Full of bounce and zest and a bravura that was once described as "something out of the pages of Dumas," the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) extrovert has a selling power that could make Eskimos buy iceboxes. He looks like, and has all the making of, a successful American business man, an elegant European bon vivant, a world-famous orchestra leader, a magnetic political boss. But from his thin lips sometimes come words of genuine wisdom...
Cataleptic Challenge. Churchill's first tries were with watercolor. One Sunday morning his restless extrovert eye fell on his sister-in-law, Lady Gwendeline, sketching in a garden. He seized on a painting kit belonging to the children of the house and took his first plunge. He changed to oils the next day, as soon as he could get to a supply shop. Like most amateurs, and very like himself, he at once bought a lot of magnificent apparatus, including portable easels for traveling...
Joel Ashley takes a good bite out of the juiciest part, that of Tiny, the cheerful extrovert. Claudia Morgan is somewhat less at home as Judith, though she snaps to life in the last act. Broun would probably get the biggest kick, though. out of the wise-cracking ball players portrayed by Karl Malden, Lewis Charles, and Fred Sherman. They talk his language, and it's the language the audience would have liked to hear more...
...days before he left for San Juan, Tom Hennings married Mrs. Josephine Halpin, a St. Louis radio announcer who specialized in "the woman's angle." Tom and Josephine Hennings were more than merely decorative. For dreamy, reform-minded Rex Tugwell, extrovert Tom Hennings made an ideal trouble shooter. Sleek Mrs. Hennings, used to a busy life, poured her bubbling energy into civilian defense, which was headed by determined, energetic Mrs. Tugwell. The two ladies did not get along well...