Word: hunch
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...accomplishments, Dorothy was too independent a character to let Bennett regulate her, intimates that she domesticated him more than he revised her. They never agreed on the subject of her intuition. On one occasion he stubbornly gambled away 1,000 francs in an effort to show her that her hunch about a certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know you are not capable of it, save under great...
About 15 years ago Dr. Coffey noticed the research which young Dr. John Davis Humber performed on the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal glands. With Dr. Humber, Dr. Coffey developed a hunch that the cortex of the adrenals governed the natural growth of all the cells of the body, that for lack of an adequate amount of the cortical hormone cancers developed...
Then Chairman O'Connor had a hunch. In 1933, he recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
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...Monte Carlo. Mrs. A. M. Sherwood, 65, of Los Angeles, Calif., had a hunch when she saw that her waiter's number was 13, scuttled for the Casino to play No. 13, slipped on a banana peel, broke her leg in two places...