Word: afflatus
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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...
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...
...afflatus which he gave to U. S. aviation has in the two years become a mighty thing. A two-hundred-million-dollar air industry has developed. The airmail, which Paul Henderson systematized with difficulty when he was Second-Assistant Postmaster-General (1922-25)*, at the beginning of this month was operating over 22,778 mi. of airways, with 3,975 mi. more scheduled soon...
...remarkable tour de force, that particular example of what Mr. Benchley terms "unconscious exhibitionism". The weather was bitter cold and without that blithe victim of "divine afflatus" the period between halves would have seemed an unnecessary purgatory. But few there were who dreamed that the young man's romp would go down in history--as it has gone down in the Bookman. It was one of those inspired moments; the antique-hatted and cooncoated young gentleman might have expected notices from sports writers and columnists--but a real flesh and blood theatrical reviewer must have been beyond his wildest dreams...