Word: afflatus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must to make a man a martyr, Death came last week at Lucknow to 69-year-old Pandit Motilal Nehru, executive genius of the Indian Nationalist party of which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the afflatus...
...Afflatus Gandhi came two days before to Lucknow with Pandit Motilal Nehru in order that the latter might have x-ray treatment. He died of a lingering illness, aggravated (many of his friends maintain) by repeated British doses of imprisonment...
Last week the Supreme Court, in deciding a case from Pittsburgh, broadened the National Prohibition Act to include within its realm of illegality all the apparatus and paraphernalia of brewing, distilling and distributing. "Under the afflatus of the 18th Amendment" the court held that the U. S. could seize barrels, bottles, corks, labels, cartons, etc., etc. when they were put on sale to be used in connection with illicit liquor...
...more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...