Word: intellection
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...Stanley Baldwin made Parliament his gentleman's club, developed a knack for maneuvering among the other members which eventually left them gasping and amazed. In 1923, on the death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
...Hoffman suffered an attack of sleeping sickness which made him walk and talk slowly but did not impair his intellect. Like President Roosevelt, who was crippled by infantile paralysis, Dr. Hoffman indomitably overcame the major handicaps of his disease. His method of forestalling the drowsiness of sleeping sickness was to work incessantly from at least 9 a. m. until after midnight every day, to travel hard...
Returned Secretary Ickes: "The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect." Then, tired of talk, the PWAdministrator scratched $648,000 for Louisiana off his PWA loan & grant list...
Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...
...Louis Wiley power was conjoined with goodness, masterfulness of intellect with kindliness of heart. This man had it within him not only to do with all his might whatever his hands found to do, but he was wont to perform his daily labors with the same grace and joyousness as a mother serves her beloved child. It was because of his rare gifts and disposition that Louis Wiley was able to overcome handicaps. . . . With such a nature, it was inevitable that he should regard the Press as a social agency and not as a personal vehicle...