Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When these jestings of his are represented to the outside world as the reflections of a serious thinker, it is no wonder that the impression has been startling...
Divorced. Sir Paul Dukes, able London journalist & author, onetime official hawkshaw in Russia; by Lady Margaret Rutherfurd Dukes, famed New Thinker, onetime spouse of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Nuptial prophets link Lady Dukes with Prince Charles Murat of France, son of Bonapartist Prince Joachim Murat, descendant of Gen. Joachim Murat, onetime King of Naples...
...that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker on the one hand and the hundred percenter on the other...
...were no party ties to prevent him from concurring in the scalding Supreme opinion thereon. Now the "Best Minds" are no longer referred to as such, but Mr. Chief Justice hears that his onetime party's Nominee "probably has the largest mind in America" and is a "planetary thinker." No opinion is required of the High Bench on these matters. When he hears of Hooverism and the Brown Derby, Mr. Chief Justice can smile, chuckle. He can point to his "dent" and lend his now almost universally admired bumps to the law, which follows sedately, a decade or more...
...everyone knows, Luther at one time occupied the chair of philosophy of the University of Wittenberg; he was a master and a doctor; he was a writer and thinker of great political and religious consequence...