Word: instinctiveness
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...Johns Hopkins Hospital bed, and his quandary as to which physician to obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece of cookery, this gargantuan dish, a rustic circle of savors where each flavor suffers...
American college men have a sure instinct for improvements in apparel that add to the smartness of the things they wear. A typical instance of this style-sense was the nation-wide approval of the Kover-Zip fly by "best-dressed" seniors at the great universities from coast to coast. Here are some of many comments on this invisible seamline closure by college men who were selected as "best-dressed...
This aristocrat, superb of all instinct...
...Pasadena, Calif., when Roy Dickson was barely old enough to walk, his father, a photographer, told him of adventures with snakes in India. The boy toddled off and caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next...
While Attorney General Cummings was not "disposed to challenge" the collapse of his prize case, he could not restrain a political instinct to take one parting crack at Mr. Mellon. Ignoring the fact that he had carried the tax charges into the headlines first, Mr. Cummings declared: "Very few people, I imagine, were seriously misled by Mr. Mellon's statements, which were evidently timed so as to be current while the grand jury had his case under consideration. There is no reason, however, to believe that these highly improper assertions affected the result. . . . The simple truth is that [Mellon...