Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...element of surprise in plot or in situation, every entrance and every exit is perfectly obvious. There is nothing subtle in the entire piece, but Miss Nichols is not writing for a public that demands subtlety. She should not be reviled by the critics, for she has the true instinct of the showman. She is giving a particular portion of the public what it most wants to see. The box office return is her best justification...
...amount of brilliancy in the practical rough-and tumble of life will ever make up for clear, wel-ordered thinking upon which to base sane judgment. No amount of instinct, flair or wisdom can ever take the place of intensive thought and study. And this is one of the gifts that scholarship confers, the habit of painstaking, analytical, thorough investigation of every problem that arises in life, the habit of clear thinking...
Garner P. Roney is a newspaperman by instinct and by virtue of long training in the practices and traditions of his profession. He recovered the body of his only son from a creek near Kinderhook yesterday; but even while he was broken by the greatest sorrow of his life, he realized that the finding of the boy's body was news and that his paper should have it. So he went to the telegraph office and wrote the story for what it was worth as news, wrote it as calmly and as dispassionately as if the boy had been...
...flagrant violation of existing treaties cannot be countenanced." Russia. "What we have seen can fill us with joy, for we have seen that Communist experiment has totally failed, because Communism, which tends to level all men down, is opposed to life and the nature of man, who is, by instinct, individualistic. Russia now follows an economic financial policy not much dissimilar from the ones obtaining in capitalistic countries. Russia now has stock exchanges in operation and money which is quoted on these stock exchanges. Besides, the new policy has created a class of small landholders who have small sympathy...
Paintings, first-editions, and especially the manuscripts of authors are peculiarly the property of the country which produces them. They are the concrete expression of the best that the nation has done, and yet Americans with more money and collective instinct than respect for national possessions, make a clean sweep of these rarities, leaving Europe to console itself with second-bests...