Word: instinctive
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...same old acquisitive instinct which from time immemorial has made the individual seek to plant as much and reap as much as he can has apparently thwarted the plan which for several months has been in effect in American agriculture...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...
Adolf Hitler, with a fine instinct for an "incident," last week hastened to Nuremberg with Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg, his Minister of Defense, and General Kurt von Hammerstein, Commander of the Reichswehr. He ordered a state funeral for Private Schumacher. Bareheaded, he led the parade. He delivered the funeral oration, laid a huge laurel wreath on the unlucky private's grave...
...merely, and cannot catch the higher tones of courtesy. If courtesy will not avail with the officials, perhaps expediency would carry a firmer point. For at a time when the alleged necessities of economy are estranging the after dinner element in Widener's clientele, an enterprising bureaucracy with the instinct to survive would do well to make some new, influential, and yet inexpensive friends...
...first difficulty that had to be faced was the repression of an instinct to pick the whole of the West Point team and let it go at that. For it is no mean task to find a team better than that which represented the Army mule, except, of course Notre Dame. It is doubtful whether the Army struck up as fast a pace as it did against Harvard but after all, the judging is done on the basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet...