Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instinct, training, and disposition, Rogers Hornsby is a superlatively good baseball player. Yet of late he has not stayed long on any "club." Three years ago he was made manager of the St. Louis Cardinals; they won the pennant and he was traded to the New York Giants, where he was captain and assistant manager; last year he was traded to Boston where he squabbled with onetime manager Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby...
...evenly matched with all those rowing showing up better than a year ago. In the last race, over a course of three miles, the first two crews finished a scant six feet apart; the stroking in both cases being very fine, showing a good deal of headwork and racing instinct on the part of these two strokes...
...chain-papers excused Nominee Hoover on the ground that "there seems to be something about political campaigning that just naturally breeds circumlocution. The roundabout instinct gets into the blood." They cited Nominee Smith...
Nominee Hoover spoke out: "Whether this letter is authentic or a forgery,* it does violence to every instinct that I possess. I resent and repudiate...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...