Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters H. P., with a heavy, everyday horse on one side, an everyday electric battery on the other. Mexico's Artist Diego Rivera claims that the lowest intellect can grasp the meaning of his paintings. Certainly no one had to scuttle for his libretto last week to discover that H. P. stood for horsepower...
...costumes proceeded to enact the story of H. P. Russian Alexis Dolinoff appeared first, wearing an electric coil or two and a welder's visor. On his back the letters H. P. identified him like a football player. The libretto said he was "in the plenitude of his intellect, sentiments and physical powers...
...school-then taught in the same academy. Friends have known her domiciled in log cabin and in luxurious mansion and have found that she graced any environment, that she has always been a tactful, loving wife to a most unusual husband, a devoted mother and a woman of remarkable intellect and social charm. If Fate should place her in the White House. Washington snobs would be forced to admire and respect Alice Murray's unpretentious manner-her calm confidence in" the purity and security of her own background that precludes any need for ostentation...
None the less, his remarks anent the intellect of undergraduates seemed, to me, a little personal and I hastened to Widener to read the article in the Saturday Review to which you had reference. Immensely to my disappointment and somewhat to my relief 5 found the following sentence: "In this connection, I am not referring to the 'prestige' universities, as the Americans call them; these, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and perhaps, Cornell, are imitations of European or English models...
...spectacle of a disinterested English intellect resorting to hack-writing of this sort is as frequent as it is strangely inconsistent with that "mental energy and intellectual relaxation," which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter flaunts as the chief glory of the English university. British writers and lecturers have long managed to turn a pretty penny at the expense of American passion for criticism. And Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's attempt tinctured with ignorance is equally puerile...