Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pasadena, Calif., when Roy Dickson was barely old enough to walk, his father, a photographer, told him of adventures with snakes in India. The boy toddled off and caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next...
While Attorney General Cummings was not "disposed to challenge" the collapse of his prize case, he could not restrain a political instinct to take one parting crack at Mr. Mellon. Ignoring the fact that he had carried the tax charges into the headlines first, Mr. Cummings declared: "Very few people, I imagine, were seriously misled by Mr. Mellon's statements, which were evidently timed so as to be current while the grand jury had his case under consideration. There is no reason, however, to believe that these highly improper assertions affected the result. . . . The simple truth is that [Mellon...
Playing opposite him is Jean Muir in the part of a beautiful nurse, imbued with common sense and an instinct for decency. Like a well-manipulated puppet, she passively fits in with Mr. William's style, doing just the right thing at just the right time with an unremitting, process regularity that is perfectly in tune. She is the propelling force behind the plot; it is she who turns the action to its elevation of minded suspense and pessimistic hope; but this is all lost again in the triteness of the closing scenes. The supporting cast is, moreover, excellent...
...charge of a committee to study possible Exchange regulations. The committee's report, turned in last January, recommended regulation of a moderate character through a special Federal body. Sagely Mr. Dickinson's committee said: "It must always be recognized that the average man has an inherent instinct for gambling. ... If abolished in one form, it seems always to crop out in another." Like Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.. John Dickinson was a child prodigy. Graduated from Johns Hopkins at 19, he has been associated with Princeton, where he got his doctorate and later taught, and Harvard, where...
...principle of good tennis, Tilden believes the first rule is never give your opponent the shot he likes to play. As a rule in tennis, the man who depends upon headwork will defeat a man who plays by natural instinct alone. When his game is off, he has another resource to fall back upon, whereas the natural athlete...