Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer and Smoke has one very genuine virtue: Margaret Phillips' performance as Alma. Condemned to talk like a book throughout, Miss Phillips reveals an unfailing ear for rhythm, an unfaltering instinct for character...
...admitted in court that he had three wives but pleaded for clemency on the grounds that he had "a very poor memory." In Fresno, Calif., Francis J. Bressi, 24, threw himself on the district attorney's mercy with a cry for help: because he "appealed to their motherly instinct," he said, he had married ten women in the last five years...
...Representatives were leary about going on record against a body that was out-theoretically, at least--to expose sin. And the voting public, as Dr. Gallup faithfully reported, was decidedly pro-Dies. Three out of every four had even heard of him, which was over-whelming evidence of the instinct for publicity he was to develop even further in his next five years on the roost...
...woman with an instinct for privacy, Mrs. Roosevelt reportedly never let her picture appear in a newspaper until her husband was elected Vice President (although he had previously been New York City Police Commissioner and Governor of New York). In the White House, she managed her family and her husband with serene competence and quiet humor. She improved the White House gardens and its housekeeping. Visitors caught glimpses of her reading to her children, or sewing at an upstairs window. She kept a watchful eye on Teddy, often interceded at state functions with a quiet "Theodore! Theodore!" (The President always...
...these phenomena of nations turning to the arts in their prosperity . . . We in the United States, too, are now seeing this same development take place. It is a form of intellectual compensation or atonement for dominating the world at a given period-tempered perhaps with an all too human instinct for the display of wealth...