Word: instinctiveness
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Miss Winwood plays a widow, and the brothers two young males in love with her. Ralph Morgan is humble, inefficient and attractive, constructed by the playwright to appeal to the mother instinct of the lady. Frank Morgan is the conquering sort. You will have to see for yourself who wins. No doubt you will be entertained in the process. But if taking the children, remember it is French...
...COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger of Pianist Stock's right hand. . . . The finger had to be amputated. Last week the victim sued...
...tells me,' 'I must listen to my blood,' are phrases sometimes used by this statesman-gladiator, so rational normally in coping with the urgent questions which confront him. 'It is no good!' he will add; 'I ' am like the animals. I feel when things are going to happen?some instinct warns me and I am obliged to follow...
...Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World was round, but because a Mendelian instinct inherited from Cro-Magnon ancestry, showed him that there was land in that direction...
...prime importance. Instead of giving all of the worthwhile news of the world, you seem to gloat over the fact that the said Johnson knocked out the teeth of a taxicab operator who happened to incur his displeasure-thereby showing your true colors-catering to the lowest animal instinct-brute force...