Word: instinctiveness
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Unfaithful (Paramount). Ruth Chatterton, who has made a reputation as an actress of heavy dramatic parts, has up to this time kept in control her instinct for staginess and lah-de-dah affectation. In Unfaithful, she takes the lid off. She is the U. S. wife of a frivolous British nobleman. She knows her husband is unfaithful but she cannot divorce him because to do that would let her high-strung brother know that his wife is the peer's mistress. There are possibilities in the idea, in spite of clumsy direction, but whatever possibilities there are Miss Chatterton...
...left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering his daughter Pamela. The patriotic instinct which prompted the choice of Melba, short for Melbourne, for a stage-name persisted all her life. She often harked, back to Australian scenes and sounds, the sudden rise of storms, the bright flash of parrots' wings, the cry of magpies at dawn. Friends say that she knew...
...feet of the guru, a holy man, studied breathing exercises and renunciation of the body, learned new definitions of purity and love. He heard the guru say that the worst enemy is not death, but wrong desire, that wars are "mass-perversions of the sexual instinct," and that discipline is paramount. To this mystery, this wisdom of the East, the Western writer brought a rare and tolerant sympathy and a rarer understanding of his own deficiencies...
...scientists. The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance. Some favored the explanation of the late Sir William F. Barrett, British physicist, that dowsers have a subconscious power something like the unexplained homing instinct of birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, brother...
Reports that moving pictures prove illegality in the Army touchdown against Yale on Saturday, must be laughed at. However true such post-mortems may be, they are distinctly averse to sporting instinct. If they are to be taken seriously there are but two possible preventatives for such occurrences. One would be for all games to be decided in a syndicated photographic dark-room during the week following each major sport event. The other would be to dispense with rules and referees...