Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Bellows never studied in Europe. He was born in Ohio, studied art in Manhattan under Robert Henri. That artist once said of him: "I can't teach this boy anything; he knows by instinct all that it has taken me years to learn...
...strutted again into public view. From the days of Poor Richard, it has been the ambition of every editor to be an evangelist: not satisfied with guiding, he wishes to misguide.: In many cases, nevertheless, a humanitarian afterthought has squelched or at least veiled the expression of this instinct...
...idea of a special election is intensely dramatic, and is the more surprising coming from Mr. Davis. Senator La Follette has the keenest dramatic instinct of all the Presidential candidates, and he was certainly the logical man to propose a special election. Senator La Follette has also set a time limit to the house-cleaning he will do if elected but being less conservative than Mr. Davis has stipulated eighteen months as his maximum. President Coolidge has said nothing about corruption. Being the most conservative of the candidates, he would doubtless place his estimate at four years. Perhaps, since...
...king and emperor, for his opening of Parliament in forty pound robes of state, for a Prince of Wales whose tours furnish reams of copy the British Empire might not be the unit which it is today. Then, too, there is always the danger that if the circus-parade instinct of the British is not appeased the worried tax-payers will refuse to support an institution which, if nothing else, is an expensive luxury...
...DRAMA OF THE LAW,* by Judge Edward Abbott Parry. This is a study of the human instinct which fascinates the public with news of sensational crimes...