Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine Arts will buy it, give it a place beside two other El Grecos that hang there, "St. Dominic" and the Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio Palavincio. These two are fine portraits; St. Martin is better. It is one of the most important works of a man whose intellect has had few equals among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never...
...Gamaliel, you are right, agreed the President, who was a big enough man to bow to a superior intellect. And later when Gamaliel ran for the U. S. senate, the president issued statement saying. "He has never failed me." Gamaliel was defeated...
...back with the mons veneris thrown forward. An advertisement by the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (Rosy Cross, Rosicrucians) dis- plays the ansate cross, phallic symbol. Yet the publisher pretends to give highly moral instruction, whereas in reality he salaciously veils salacities. He makes no appeal to the intellect, little to the emotions, almost all to the sensations below the zone...
...Intellect...
...Potent offspring of the Chicago Tribune in the realm of Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlets. Bernarr does not even mention Mr. Hearst's Daily Mirror (also pornographic) in his roster of morning papers- the apparent implication being that such a sheet is beneath the intellect of Evening Graphic readers...