Word: intellection
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...himself as an ex-newspaperman, maintains stoutly that his literary style is a product of his years as a reporter. This style, studied closely, resolves itself into a trick of calling names more luridly than anyone else. He once said that the late Huey Long had "halitosis of the intellect"; that General Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores"; that when Racket-Buster Thomas E. Dewey announced his Presidential candidacy he "tossed his diapers into the ring...
...Harvard intellect was shown up over a coast-to-coast hook-up last night when Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44 was crushingly overcome on Professor Quiz' question and answer show. Rosenbloom, commonly known as the "sagebrush of Matthews," could only tie for third, with 191 points out of a possible...
...consistency is a hobgoblin of little minds, President Roosevelt has amply demonstrated in the past eight years that his is an intellect of no little capacity. Consequently the American people might have been guilty of a slight touch of skepticism when he spoke last October of keeping American boys out of the war and, more specifically, of prohibiting ships carrying the American flag to enter war zones. From all indications of the past few days that skepticism was justified...
...being is denied by his fellows in a temple commemorating their common saint, a man who lived only that we may learn the Golden Rule--shameful because a man of dark hue is publicly shunned in a place devoted to the pursuit of truth and culture, a place where intellect raises man from his smallness--shameful because our motto so brazenly flaunts itself now, as obvious camouflage--"Erudito et religio!"--we have struck our colors, once more, to convention and prejudice! --Duke University Chronicle, April 4, 1941. THE HERMIT PLACE, by Mark Schorer. Random House, New York...
...corps of press agents) demanded that Cinemactress Susan be drafted as president. Geewhizzed Artist St. Amand, who envisages a comprehensive "Academy of Feminine Perfection" as a sort of penultimate holding company of compelling female corporeality: "Not only does she have perfect legs; she has the poise and the intellect necessary to act as the leader of the institute...