Word: instinctiveness
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Attacks on humans by U. S. screech owls are not uncommon. Persons who have had the experience know it is indescribably frightening. The birds have a fiercely protective instinct for their young and the onslaughts usually occur when the young are learning to fly. Some years ago a report in a scientific journal of an attack brought out dozens of letters from Oregon to Ontario to Texas recording similar episodes. One Louisiana Negro was said to have lost an eye. Policemen walking lonely beats are frequent victims...
Sample guides for girls: A woman is no less rash than a man if she marries before she has sown her wild oats. Sowing season: ten to 15 years, beginning at the age of 15. Purpose: to exhaust the "polygamous instinct." which is probably stronger in women than men. Harmony in marriage depends on "bodily adaptation," which depends on the sexual tact of the husband, which depends on his premarriage initiation, which is usually bad. To end this vicious circle, let girls of good will turn teachers. "You must finish with love before you become good, unless you want love...
...brushed aside a tousled, screeching head bent upon chalking the sidewalk, the Vagabond observed to himself how Byron Piccup had made into a college-worthy art are what most men had always considered an instinct...
...silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high because, though a monopolist, he was honest and not rapacious. His Yankee instinct was for pay-as-you-go government and that is the kind New Englanders like. One time when Boss Roraback was in the South, Governor John H, Trumbull and the Senate Finance Committee chairman agreed that Connecticut must have a bond issue, announced it. An angry telegram from Roraback summoned them...
...must be concerned with liberty abroad, but liberty begins at home. "We must hold tight to legal prescriptions and procedures, trust only to leaders committed by instinct and belief to the defense of civil liberties, and deal summarily with those who band together to destroy them. We must guard zealously the rights of our scholars and teachers to carry forward the stream of civilized thought . . . and protect the rights of assembly and speech and the freedom of the press...