Word: instinctiveness
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This arrangement was not at all pleasing to the Astor group which had planned to build office and other business buildings right up Madison Ave. Thus the Astor's century-old instinct for profitable realty development collided with Mr. Morgan's fondness for his old-fashioned home and his determination not to live at the bottom of a lofty canyon inhabited by sales-managers, advertising-agents, and other insensitive neighbors. For the past ten years the two parties have fenced and litigated incessantly over the question...
Carrying out the broader applications of tropisms, Loeb says: "Our wishes and hopes, disappointments and sufferings have their sources in instincts which are comparable to the light instinct of the heliotropic animals. The need of and the struggle for food, the sexual instinct with its poetry and its chain of consequences, the maternal instincts with the felicity and the suffering caused by them, the instinct of workmanship, and some other instincts are the roots from which our inner life develops. For some of these instincts the chemical basis is at least sufficiently indicated to arouse the hope that their analysis...
...dictator of theatrical spectacle in America. After a number of staggeringly magnificent musical extravaganzas (Aphrodite, Chu Chin Chow, etc.) he introduced the Chauve Souris, the Moscow Art Company, Duse, The Miracle. He has the combined temperaments of the no-limit poker player and P. T. Barnum, plus dominating artistic instinct. He has become thereby a unique figure in a world where eccentricity is the primary requirement...
...fictional technique. They have appeared in magazines of varying types: The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, The Century, etc., etc. The latest collection of them was made this Autumn under the title Cross-Sections, Julian Street was born in Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both...
...those whose predilections turn by instinct to musical comedy, the following are recommended: Music Box Revue, Poppy, Ziegfeld Follies, Stepping Stones, Runnin' Wild, Wildflower...